Last summer number 151 looked awesome:
I don't know whether they lost the wall (possibly after an unfortunate misparking) and then put the bananas in, or got the bananas and decided the wall had to go. The front of the houses is often the sunniest space in Oxford, so the temptation is clear. Lovely palm tree there, too. It's a fantastically warm street, a microclimate on a sunny slope; the camellias always do really well here. But bananas out in the ground? Ambitious.
This is how it looks now. The palm is browned; the bananas a chewed pile of stumps. Our winter has been wet and cold, even on Divinity Road.
But maybe something will return.
I don't know whether they lost the wall (possibly after an unfortunate misparking) and then put the bananas in, or got the bananas and decided the wall had to go. The front of the houses is often the sunniest space in Oxford, so the temptation is clear. Lovely palm tree there, too. It's a fantastically warm street, a microclimate on a sunny slope; the camellias always do really well here. But bananas out in the ground? Ambitious.
This is how it looks now. The palm is browned; the bananas a chewed pile of stumps. Our winter has been wet and cold, even on Divinity Road.
But maybe something will return.
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