On the far side of the once-lawyers, soon to be travelodge (whose garden I have featured here before) I found an astonishing sight:
It could just be accidental, of course. In a space where every other bit of earth is razed-to-the-ground baresoil, all these narcissi and windflowers and cyclamen could have just come up, having been planted years ago. That happens, right?
That is quite a good stand of windflowers, though. And a really nifty shade of cyclamen. The real clincher, though, and the thing that firmly suggests this is somebody's project, are these:
Somebody has taken the bricks from a backed-into wall and is rebuilding them into wallside planters. It's quite the romantic move, given that garden, building and all is marked for demolition. All the signs you can see in the shot below are security warnings and phone numbers you can call to report an issue with the building. It's under 24 hour surveillance, apparently.
Let's hope nobody destroys it before the tulips come up, because some are pretty clearly on their way. Will they be classic toybox reds? Or, like the delicate narcissi and fancy cyclamen, will they be something a little more classy? Because I have a feeling that this isn't simply a guerrilla gardener, it's an M&S Guerrilla Gardener.
It could just be accidental, of course. In a space where every other bit of earth is razed-to-the-ground baresoil, all these narcissi and windflowers and cyclamen could have just come up, having been planted years ago. That happens, right?
That is quite a good stand of windflowers, though. And a really nifty shade of cyclamen. The real clincher, though, and the thing that firmly suggests this is somebody's project, are these:
Somebody has taken the bricks from a backed-into wall and is rebuilding them into wallside planters. It's quite the romantic move, given that garden, building and all is marked for demolition. All the signs you can see in the shot below are security warnings and phone numbers you can call to report an issue with the building. It's under 24 hour surveillance, apparently.
Let's hope nobody destroys it before the tulips come up, because some are pretty clearly on their way. Will they be classic toybox reds? Or, like the delicate narcissi and fancy cyclamen, will they be something a little more classy? Because I have a feeling that this isn't simply a guerrilla gardener, it's an M&S Guerrilla Gardener.
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