Hello all!
When I started this blog, I promised many things – I said I was going to do blogs about things that I didn’t, I got excited about projects that never happened and when I look through my old blogs I get embarrassed about all these empty promises…
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| Taken by Judy Young, August 2012 |
So here I am fulfilling one of those promises from a very old blog post I wrote when I first started ‘Living On A Shoestring’ to do a blog about my mum’s garden as it the best usage of a small space I have ever seen and it changes everytime I see it. I have always been impressed and inspired by my parent’s gardening – when we lived in the countryside and had a lot more space to play with we had a wonderful vegetable garden, a rose garden, fruit trees, ponds and little secret areas that I loved playing in so much. So when they decided to up sticks and move (back) to London the family was most worried about lack of outdoor space but mum has done wonderful things with her tiny postage stamp of a garden that I wanted to share with you.
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| Taken by Judy Young, August 2012 |
I am here right now at the beginning of the ‘coldest spring in 50 years’ and it still looks lush and inviting…
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| I did a little panoramic for you… |
And this is it in the summer which I will come back and visit soon!
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| Taken by Judy Young, August 2012 |
Originally it was all in pots…
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| All Taken by Judy Young, all year round! |
Also the birds are always visiting…
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| Spot the robin… |
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| Hobbes and I are always visiting too! |
Now back to my own garden- so much to do, so little sun to do it in!
Love & inspiration,
Xox Gabbersea xoX
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The first time I post a comment on a blogspot-blog. Really nice garden, but what kind of birds do you have in England?
Hello Betina!
Well the birds in these pictures are a Robin, Willow Tit/Great Tits (I think, definitely part of the Tit family) and we are lucky to have many Parakeets (originally from India) in London- they are all other Hampstead Heath, Battersea Park and often in my mum’s garden! No one actually knows why but the theories are wonderful…I found this through google “one rumour is that rock star Jimi Hendrix released them to add more “psychedelic color” to London, or that they escaped from the Shepperton Studios during the filming of the Humphrey Bogart picture, “The African Queen.” In all likelihood, they probably escaped or were released from residents’ bird cages or pet stores.”
Thankyou for reading my blog
Xox Gabby
Interesting. When I was in London I didn’t see any birds, I only realised the squirells in the parks of London. These kind of birds I only know from the streets of Barcelona or the more southern parts of Europe. I’m wondering what they are doing in winter, it isn’t that warm in London…
Plant spa always includes the ferns and usually the Norfolk Pine because of all my plants they need humidity most.flowering trees