Victoria's backyard

A subtropical suburban oasis in Wandsworth, south-west London designed to defy the depredations of global warming, garden pests and kids without recourse to carbon emissions, chemicals or cranial damage.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Yay, summer's on its way

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OK, so the economy's rubbish and we're all about to get swine flu. And house prices are down again, and there's still no sign o...

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Help for Heroes

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I know it's a little early to start the Chelsea previews, but this is in a good cause. One of the show gardens at the Chelsea Flower Sho...

Friday, April 24, 2009

Sending out an SOS

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Help! I'm having that spring thing. You know, frantic bursts of activity followed by agonies of indecision, amnesia, panic and frantic r...

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Thinking outside the box

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I can quite see that flowers are lovely. I love irises, with their hand-painted patterns, and the texture of rose petals, and all the streak...

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Honey, I shrunk the trampoline

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It's gone. At last, the trampoline has gone. Actually, to be scrupulously honest, it's stacked up in the side passage, but it is out...

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

The flower market, minus Eliza Doolittle

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New Covent Garden Flower Market, photographed last year. That's not me on the left, by the way. Neither is it Eliza Doolittle Owen aske...

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