We thought it might be nice to swing by the Italianate Gardens during our swing down the Serpentine this summer. This is part of the Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens London Green Heart* area, and a fancy garden in the Italian style. Instead of being carved from stone, the decorative pallisades and sculptures are shaped concrete, periodically scrubbed and cleaned before the pollution and the water and the algae start their inexorable march again.
These two attendant swans, especially, seemed to be getting in in the (delicately shaped) neck from the water and the weather and yeah, about that algae. I thought I'd had difficulties with algae in ponds and planters, you might think you've had problems with algae, but this was on a whole nother scale of problem:
Who knew that if you let algae go far enough it becomes a thing of interest in it's own right? And it didn't seem to be causing trouble for the wildlife, which despite the blinding heat, was very much in evidence.
*Don't recognise the term "Green Heart"? Coming soon from Urban Greenvasion.
These two attendant swans, especially, seemed to be getting in in the (delicately shaped) neck from the water and the weather and yeah, about that algae. I thought I'd had difficulties with algae in ponds and planters, you might think you've had problems with algae, but this was on a whole nother scale of problem:
Who knew that if you let algae go far enough it becomes a thing of interest in it's own right? And it didn't seem to be causing trouble for the wildlife, which despite the blinding heat, was very much in evidence.
*Don't recognise the term "Green Heart"? Coming soon from Urban Greenvasion.
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