Back garden, winter 2009
Westward view from our attic window over our back garden with the Rosendale Allotments on Knight's Hill, beyond. Taken just 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 below and these can be checked out in the non-snowy shots in this garden 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. 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
- Arbour - R, by hedge, with trellis side visible, assembled from flat-pack.
- Bike shed - bottom L, assembled by supplier.
- Border - nearest planting on R, mostly flowering shrubs.
- Lower Rockery and mixed shrub border - nearest R side of garden to L of hedge with climbers.
- Path - footsteps in the snow mark its winding route - path made of reclaimed York stone laid in 'crazy' style by local landscaper, late Mr. Rogers, to our own design, shortly after we arrived in 1985.
- Pond - lower L, doubles as reservoir for the cascades etc. of the water feature, with cistern to hold more water hidden beneath nearest part of water course, all built mostly by me.
- Temple of Juno garden shed - upper centre L, with shingled roof and white columns supporting portico, built by me in sections out of reclaimed timber ("Rosen Wanted") at a previous house, brought here and extended with portico. I made the columns made from a flag pole. Steve Cruse (joiner) hung the doors (architectural salvage) and put on the cladding.
- Top Terrace - upper centre in front of Valrosa Cabin with bay and box trees in containers - recently completed by Acer Landscapes in Summer 2008.
- Upper Rockery (Railway Rockery) - upper 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 - centre background, brown, fully insulated, built for us in 2007 by Acer Landscapes.
- Water Rockery - the round thingy, centre L, with pumped water course, upper pools, cascades, and lower loop of garden railway (not visible beneath the snow). Almost all built myself.
Plants
- Buxus sempervirens - jelly-mould box-hedge, centre L.
- Chamaecyparis, columnar, not sure what species or form - in neighbour's garden to L, along the fence, centre L.
- Chamaecyparis - probably C. lawsoniana, Lawson's cypress, 'Stewartii' or 'Westermannii' - neighbours' tall conifer upper R.
- Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Squarrosa' - a Sawara cypress, upper L centre immediately in front of Temple of Juno portico.
- Clematis armandii - evergreen climber, one of the mixed climbers on the nearest R part of the fence.
- Clematis cirrhosa var. balearica - growing over old apple tree stumps. centre L.
- Cotoneaster frigidus - L upper centre, to L of Temple of Juno.
- Escallonia macrantha - two shrubs shaped into an arch over side path, L side only visible here, centre R.
Juniperus scopulorum 'Skyrocket' - pillar juniper, tall thin tree centre R.
- Lonicera japonica - Japanese honeysuckle, evergreen, one of the mixed climbers on the nearest R part of the fence.
- Picea glauca var. albertiana 'Conica' - dwarf white spruce, two trees one behind the other, on Upper Rockery, centre.
- Picea mariana 'Nana' - dwarf black spruce, alongside path, centre.
- Prunus domesticus (presumably) - the neighbours' plum tree, upper centre L, to L of Valrosa Cabin.
- Pyrus probably P. communis - common pear tree, uppermost L, in neighbours' garden.
- Taxus baccata - yew, golden fastigiate form, probably 'Standishii' - front L in neighbour's 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
© Darkroom Daze Creative Commons.
If you would like to use or refer to this image, please link or attribute.
ID: CIMG2223_2
Back garden, winter 2009
Westward view from our attic window over our back garden with the Rosendale Allotments on Knight's Hill, beyond. Taken just 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 below and these can be checked out in the non-snowy shots in this garden 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. 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
- Arbour - R, by hedge, with trellis side visible, assembled from flat-pack.
- Bike shed - bottom L, assembled by supplier.
- Border - nearest planting on R, mostly flowering shrubs.
- Lower Rockery and mixed shrub border - nearest R side of garden to L of hedge with climbers.
- Path - footsteps in the snow mark its winding route - path made of reclaimed York stone laid in 'crazy' style by local landscaper, late Mr. Rogers, to our own design, shortly after we arrived in 1985.
- Pond - lower L, doubles as reservoir for the cascades etc. of the water feature, with cistern to hold more water hidden beneath nearest part of water course, all built mostly by me.
- Temple of Juno garden shed - upper centre L, with shingled roof and white columns supporting portico, built by me in sections out of reclaimed timber ("Rosen Wanted") at a previous house, brought here and extended with portico. I made the columns made from a flag pole. Steve Cruse (joiner) hung the doors (architectural salvage) and put on the cladding.
- Top Terrace - upper centre in front of Valrosa Cabin with bay and box trees in containers - recently completed by Acer Landscapes in Summer 2008.
- Upper Rockery (Railway Rockery) - upper 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 - centre background, brown, fully insulated, built for us in 2007 by Acer Landscapes.
- Water Rockery - the round thingy, centre L, with pumped water course, upper pools, cascades, and lower loop of garden railway (not visible beneath the snow). Almost all built myself.
Plants
- Buxus sempervirens - jelly-mould box-hedge, centre L.
- Chamaecyparis, columnar, not sure what species or form - in neighbour's garden to L, along the fence, centre L.
- Chamaecyparis - probably C. lawsoniana, Lawson's cypress, 'Stewartii' or 'Westermannii' - neighbours' tall conifer upper R.
- Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Squarrosa' - a Sawara cypress, upper L centre immediately in front of Temple of Juno portico.
- Clematis armandii - evergreen climber, one of the mixed climbers on the nearest R part of the fence.
- Clematis cirrhosa var. balearica - growing over old apple tree stumps. centre L.
- Cotoneaster frigidus - L upper centre, to L of Temple of Juno.
- Escallonia macrantha - two shrubs shaped into an arch over side path, L side only visible here, centre R.
Juniperus scopulorum 'Skyrocket' - pillar juniper, tall thin tree centre R.
- Lonicera japonica - Japanese honeysuckle, evergreen, one of the mixed climbers on the nearest R part of the fence.
- Picea glauca var. albertiana 'Conica' - dwarf white spruce, two trees one behind the other, on Upper Rockery, centre.
- Picea mariana 'Nana' - dwarf black spruce, alongside path, centre.
- Prunus domesticus (presumably) - the neighbours' plum tree, upper centre L, to L of Valrosa Cabin.
- Pyrus probably P. communis - common pear tree, uppermost L, in neighbours' garden.
- Taxus baccata - yew, golden fastigiate form, probably 'Standishii' - front L in neighbour's 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
© Darkroom Daze Creative Commons.
If you would like to use or refer to this image, please link or attribute.
ID: CIMG2223_2