I don’t actually have my own garden. I have a little courtyard outside my front door which is mainly in the shade due to the house above. But that’s nice, it helps to keep the flat lovely and cool throughout the hot weather.
But if you walk up the steps from the little courtyard and turn right you are in for a treat!
There is such a pretty garden belonging to the house above me. I help water the garden and mow the lawn throughout the summer. It has been especially pretty during the spring. Of course the daffodils and tulips are long gone. The magnolia and camellias have disappeared now, and I can see that the wisteria is fading away. The forsythia is beautiful at the moment.
But it is still a lovely garden. And there will be more flowers appearing throughout the summer, I think we are due some roses soon. There are also boxes and pots around the garden with pansies which seem to keep thriving whatever the weather, lavender and honeysuckle and various creepers trailing around the wooden trellises.
Very pretty, very lovely, very fragrant – a little pocket of paradise, a mini-oasis from the big choky smoke of London.
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This was my post in response to the prompt from Sarah Elizabeth Moore:
https://sarahelizabethmoore.org/2019/05/26/writing-prompt-21/
Really a pretty garden 🌸🌷
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I really like it. The garden designers have made sure there is colour all year round, and there is so much prettiness 🙂
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That is a lovely garden. But that’s why gardens like ours are so important. Our battered mole heaven helps keep the good gardens safe.
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Absolutely…erm…battered mole??? I am not going to ask.
I have not seen a mole in London, but I have seen lots of foxes. I wonder if that has anything to do with the absence of moles???
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No because they are all here…
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That’s why!!
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a very pretty garden
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I love it. Nice to have such prettiness when you live in a concrete jungle 🙂
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Beautiful! It doesn’t take much space for such beauty to grow.
Cheers,
Carolyn
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Thanks Carolyn 🙂
I have often thought of having some flowering pot plants in the courtyard – except it is all in the shade and I don’t think any plants would do well down here.
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Seems a beautiful garden. Ideal to enjoy nature.
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It is pretty 🙂 There are some fantastic parks nearby too where we see lots of animals. It’s a nice part of London.
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That’s wonderful
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Lovely. Ty.
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Thank you 🙂
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That wisteria has been beautifully espaliered! 🙂
I have a white version covering a large pergola. it’s a pity their beautiful perfumed flowers last just a few weeks. 😦
(When Gary said ‘battered mole heaven’ he meant his back garden was battered and it was ‘mole heaven’! No moles were harmed in the writing of that comment! Thought you’d like to know?)
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The wisteria here has such a beautiful fragrance – but I can see it is fading away now.
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I see Nature’s beauty fade away every single day.
Fortunately (almost as if by design) it is immediately replaced by something equally as beautiful – in it’s own way. 🙂
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