Back garden and surroundings, winter 2009
Westward view from our attic window over our back garden to the Rosendale Allotments on Knight's Hill, after the big February snowfall (February 2009).
Parts of our immediate neighbours' gardens can be seen here too. Rosendale allotments are said to be the most extensive in London. There are over 450 plots which people from all around the area use for growing vegetables, fruit and cut flowers. It's a hilly site, and all supplies have to be brought by hand to the plots, including water - hard work!
Of course the snow has covered many of the details of the garden, but I've listed the more conspicuous features and these can then be checked out in other photos in this set.
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NOTE ON THE GARDEN
The garden was very plain and bare when we arrived in 1985. We have been developing the design gradually since then, but not from a single pre-planned conception. Eventually we developed the overall shape, with a 'winding river' effect made by the lawns and path (though only some of this can be seen in this view). The shapes of the rockeries, planting and other features are based on the way a small stream winds between 'interlocking spurs' in hilly terrain. We did all the planting, and I built many of the features. For further history of our garden, see set description for 'OUR BACK GARDEN'
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GARDEN DETAILS
(To see garden details better, click on the three dots symbol (●●● meaning 'more') at bottom right of black part of screen > Choose 'View all sizes' > Choose any size larger than the one in black font. Press back button to return. See also notes on picture. However, notes are not retained in downloaded versions of Flickr images.)
Features
- Temple of Juno garden shed - lower centre, with white portico and shingled roof, built by me in sections out of reclaimed timber ("Rosen Wanted") at a previous house, brought here and extended with portico, and finished by joiner Steve Cruse.
- Top Terrace - lower centre R, in front of Valrosa Cabin with bay and box trees in containers - recently completed by Acer Landscapes in Summer 2008.
- Upper Rockery (Railway Rockery) - lower centre, planted with alpines, dwarf shrubs and trees including conifers, also the base for the Upper Loop of Garden Railway. Rockery built myself of various kinds of stone in simulated geological structure (not visible here).
- Valrosa Cabin workshop - lower centre across back of garden, brown, fully insulated, built for us in 2007 by Acer Landscapes.
Plants
- Buxus sempervirens - jelly-mould box-hedge, lower centre L.
- Chamaecyparis, columnar, not sure what species or form - in neighbour's garden lower L, along the fence.
- Chamaecyparis - probably C. lawsoniana, Lawson's cypress, 'Stewartii' or 'Westermannii' - neighbours' tall conifer far R.
- Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Squarrosa' - a Sawara cypress, lower centre L immediately in front of Temple of Juno portico.
- Clematis cirrhosa var. balearica - growing over old apple tree stumps. centre L foreground.
- Cotoneaster frigidus - lower L centre, to L of Temple of Juno.
- Escallonia macrantha - two shrubs shaped into an arch over side path, top of L side only visible here, foreground lower R.
- Juniperus scopulorum 'Skyrocket' - pillar juniper, tall thin tree, foreground R.
- Picea glauca var. albertiana 'Conica' - dwarf white spruce, two trees one behind the other on Upper (Railway) Rockery, centre foreground.
- Prunus domesticus (presumably) - the neighbours' plum tree, L centre, to L of Valrosa Cabin.
- Pyrus probably P. communis - common pear tree, L centre, in neighbours' garden.
- Taxus baccata - yew, golden fastigiate form, probably 'Standishii' - foreground L, tip only visible, in neighbours' garden.
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LOCATION DETAILS
Country: Great Britain: England
City: London
London Borough: Lambeth
District: West Dulwich, SE21
Altitude: 40m
Aspect: view is approx westward and R side of garden catches most sun.
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Photo
Brian Roy Rosen
Uploaded to Flickr June 11, 2009
© Darkroom Daze Creative Commons.
If you would like to use or refer to this image, please link or attribute.
ID: CIMG2222
Back garden and surroundings, winter 2009
Westward view from our attic window over our back garden to the Rosendale Allotments on Knight's Hill, after the big February snowfall (February 2009).
Parts of our immediate neighbours' gardens can be seen here too. Rosendale allotments are said to be the most extensive in London. There are over 450 plots which people from all around the area use for growing vegetables, fruit and cut flowers. It's a hilly site, and all supplies have to be brought by hand to the plots, including water - hard work!
Of course the snow has covered many of the details of the garden, but I've listed the more conspicuous features and these can then be checked out in other photos in this set.
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NOTE ON THE GARDEN
The garden was very plain and bare when we arrived in 1985. We have been developing the design gradually since then, but not from a single pre-planned conception. Eventually we developed the overall shape, with a 'winding river' effect made by the lawns and path (though only some of this can be seen in this view). The shapes of the rockeries, planting and other features are based on the way a small stream winds between 'interlocking spurs' in hilly terrain. We did all the planting, and I built many of the features. For further history of our garden, see set description for 'OUR BACK GARDEN'
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GARDEN DETAILS
(To see garden details better, click on the three dots symbol (●●● meaning 'more') at bottom right of black part of screen > Choose 'View all sizes' > Choose any size larger than the one in black font. Press back button to return. See also notes on picture. However, notes are not retained in downloaded versions of Flickr images.)
Features
- Temple of Juno garden shed - lower centre, with white portico and shingled roof, built by me in sections out of reclaimed timber ("Rosen Wanted") at a previous house, brought here and extended with portico, and finished by joiner Steve Cruse.
- Top Terrace - lower centre R, in front of Valrosa Cabin with bay and box trees in containers - recently completed by Acer Landscapes in Summer 2008.
- Upper Rockery (Railway Rockery) - lower centre, planted with alpines, dwarf shrubs and trees including conifers, also the base for the Upper Loop of Garden Railway. Rockery built myself of various kinds of stone in simulated geological structure (not visible here).
- Valrosa Cabin workshop - lower centre across back of garden, brown, fully insulated, built for us in 2007 by Acer Landscapes.
Plants
- Buxus sempervirens - jelly-mould box-hedge, lower centre L.
- Chamaecyparis, columnar, not sure what species or form - in neighbour's garden lower L, along the fence.
- Chamaecyparis - probably C. lawsoniana, Lawson's cypress, 'Stewartii' or 'Westermannii' - neighbours' tall conifer far R.
- Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Squarrosa' - a Sawara cypress, lower centre L immediately in front of Temple of Juno portico.
- Clematis cirrhosa var. balearica - growing over old apple tree stumps. centre L foreground.
- Cotoneaster frigidus - lower L centre, to L of Temple of Juno.
- Escallonia macrantha - two shrubs shaped into an arch over side path, top of L side only visible here, foreground lower R.
- Juniperus scopulorum 'Skyrocket' - pillar juniper, tall thin tree, foreground R.
- Picea glauca var. albertiana 'Conica' - dwarf white spruce, two trees one behind the other on Upper (Railway) Rockery, centre foreground.
- Prunus domesticus (presumably) - the neighbours' plum tree, L centre, to L of Valrosa Cabin.
- Pyrus probably P. communis - common pear tree, L centre, in neighbours' garden.
- Taxus baccata - yew, golden fastigiate form, probably 'Standishii' - foreground L, tip only visible, in neighbours' garden.
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LOCATION DETAILS
Country: Great Britain: England
City: London
London Borough: Lambeth
District: West Dulwich, SE21
Altitude: 40m
Aspect: view is approx westward and R side of garden catches most sun.
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Photo
Brian Roy Rosen
Uploaded to Flickr June 11, 2009
© Darkroom Daze Creative Commons.
If you would like to use or refer to this image, please link or attribute.
ID: CIMG2222