Many front gardens in Redbridge are now car parks - concreted over to
accommodate the two, three, four or even five cars per household. But
some gardens are retained, whilst others may be concreted, but still
have space for a few blooms, window boxes or hanging baskets. A ten
minute walk in Newbury Park produced the photographs here. Summer has
arrived!
Some recent shots of St. Paul's Cathedral - all of which I am making into Notelets for sale on my stall at the Craft Market as part of the St. Peter;s Flower Festival on Saturday and Sunday 25th and 26th June. Hope to see you there!
Photographed in Hainault Forest on Sunday 15th May on my way to Heather and Rob's for lunch. The last shot was in a front garden on Whalebone Lane. You could be forgiven for thinking you were in the depth of the contryside instead in the London Borough of Redbridge!
I have been in the garden for a few hours and am now relaxing at the computer!
The
front ranch-style fence celebrates its 50th birthday this year. Graham
was two when it was constucted with brass screws and concrete posts. A
friend walking by as I painted it with preservative this morning in the
cool from 8.30am commented: "I would not worry about replacing any of the wood - it will see you out!" I guess he is right for I do paint it with preservative each year.
I
started putting out some bedding plants - trailing verbena in the fence
troughs - and tied uyp the clematis on the arch-thing. Yvonne's rose is
in bud and the first lilies are poking through and bursting open near
the kitchen door.
With Graham, Danielle and Heather in Dorset for the day on Saturday. Graham cooked lunch which we enjoed in brilliant sunshine on their decking, then to the Food Fair in the High Street in Christchurch where we enjoyed much tasting - and Herbal Haven's brilliant plant stall!
Thing are moving slowly in the rear garden - I have yet to make a start on the front now that the spring bulbs have finished!
Socks does not like the camera! The second shot is the wild flower bank
where some of last year's sowings are coming up together with seeds
from this year. The tomato plants are all hanging basket variety - and
some of the hanging baskets are waiting for 19th May when Farmer Rudge
said that after that there would be no more frosts. They are in the
greenhouse at night - in the open in the day to start hardening off.
Spring is bursting out all over at St. Peter's as the flowering cherry trees come to life once more. I have to say - and I should not really but I will! - that this was one of my better ideas to replace the gnarled plane trees with these beauties!
