A tale of two gardens: my mother was up for the week, and we called in to see Steve. He works six days out of seven, and consequently his garden had become a bit of a wild, untamed tropical jungle, thought he said that was the way he liked it; banana plants and other huge ones with spiked, rather vicious leaves. I told him I was sorry I hadn’t spotted any of the indigenous people that obviously lived and lurked among it all; they must be very shy. ‘Oh yes, the pygmies,’ he said. Later in the week we called in on Grace and Eric; no hostile vegetation, instead an almost overwhelming sense of colour, petunias, begonias, busy lizzies, you name it. A bit too much of everything for my taste, but undeniably spectacular. Both of them much better gardeners than me
Archive for July, 2008
Walking along the canal
The months of June and July are really the best time to be walking along the canal, if the sun and light is right. You get fantastic greens and browns. I treat the canal as an extension of my back garden, and feel a sense of ownership. I started walking along it regularly two years ago, to help repair my back, and wondered why I had not done it years before. Funnily enough, my back is playing up again. The picture of a heron fishing was taken a week ago
