The Jasmine has excelled itself this year and fills the room with a wonderful scent. Usually, when a plant flowers to this extent, it is worrying about death. A well-fed plant in a massive pot does not flower so extravagantly, I believe.
I quite like the idea of gardening, but I have never done anything but weeding and cutting grass - mainly because I have lived in town for most of my life. It will soon be time to sew my window box with Night Scented Stock though, which I do every year.
One idea was that Sherlock Holmes retired to the country to keep bees. There are beehives on some roofs in London, and I have heard the keepers say that it is quite worrying to release them for the first time and watch them fly off over the city on a long forage for nectar, then experience the feeling of relief when they return from places like Hyde Park or Hampstead Heath.
Andy commented on how much greenery there was in town as he watched the drone footage from about 200 feet. I have flown over Bath a few times in planes and hot air balloons, and discovered huge gardens locked-in by squares of Georgian architecture. Bath is a very rural town in any case - everyone comments on the proximity of green hills all around - but it is not until you rise above it that you understand quite how green it is. We are lucky and know it.
Sheffield's council, on the other hand, have decided that it is cheaper to cut down 6000 trees in the city rather than pay the same tree-surgeons to maintain them.
That decision in Sheffield is a highly political one.
ReplyDeleteWell it's a contentious one anyway. They began felling several years ago.
DeleteThese are trees planted as a memorial to those lost in WWI.
DeleteI didn't know that. When were they planted and how large are they? The only ones I know about are the ones that line the ordinary roads. I have not heard about memorial trees being cut down. Tell me more.
DeletePlanted after WWI 96 years ago. A monument to those lost. They are next in line for destruction. They may have already gone.
DeleteOutstanding jasmine, and what a great city view from your window.
ReplyDeleteYes, I know I am lucky.
DeleteBernard Levin once said that he'd never seen an acre of land that wouldn't have looked better under a foot of Tarmac. Maybe he came from Sheffield.
ReplyDeleteBernard Levin used to read books on the lav, then tear the pages he had read out and use them as toilet paper. Bernard Levin was not a very pleasant person.
DeleteIs the Jasmime in front of a south-facing window? Never knew they can survive indoors
ReplyDeleteGreetings Maria x
Yes, South but usually not too sunny. Jasmine - or the ones which have been programmed to Winter flower - do well indoors.
DeleteHave you gone to a Sheffield Council meeting to discuss your alternative? Honest to god, dialogue works.
ReplyDeleteJackie left Sheffield about 55 years ago, and it is about 250 miles away from here - quite far for a Brit.
DeleteHasn;t anyone told Sheffield that it isn't just about money?
ReplyDeleteRachel says it is about politics, but most civic things turn into politics if they don't start that way. I know that there is an element - a very large element - of cut-back politics going on, and I have been speaking to Sheffield locals who have not mentioned anything more overtly political.
DeleteCutback politics, at least over here, means the political decisions and ramifications of budget cutting. Your are getting somewhat macabre. Well, a little, though not a lot, it seems.
DeleteJasmine, is a beautiful flowering plant! My granddaughter’s name is Jasmine. She is 12. 💜 Gabs
ReplyDeleteAww.
DeleteMr EM and I are crap at gardening. Very sad as his dad was the original (scientific) panellist on GQT.
ReplyDeleteReally? Oh well, the sins of the fathers and all that.
DeleteOo-er. Lots of sinning but not much to do with plants even in our recent visit to Amsterdam. Hahaha.
DeleteLovely jasmine! Glad to hear Bath has lots of hidden green spaces. Upsetting about the Sheffield trees.
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