I am walking my dog every day on a fallow piece of land that sits along train tracks and used to be the place where the slaughterhouses for the entire city were standing, basically in the middle of town. there still are beautifully cobbled pathways with huge basalt cobblestones but mostly the area is smashed stones, bricks and trampled e…
I am walking my dog every day on a fallow piece of land that sits along train tracks and used to be the place where the slaughterhouses for the entire city were standing, basically in the middle of town. there still are beautifully cobbled pathways with huge basalt cobblestones but mostly the area is smashed stones, bricks and trampled earth, depleted of any soil. but as the year goes round one can see beautiful flowers and shrubs coming into season. right now there is a mass of light blue asters, tall grasses, thistles, and in may there are 30 different blooming species, at least the ones I could count. the plants behave a little like at Prospect Cottage, everything is slowed down, small but tough and resilient against the baking sun, wind, frost, rains. So this is a kind of “natural” gravel garden that can show us a little about which plants could be used and which thrive in such places, without having to make everything into mediterranean gardens, as beautiful as they may be.
I am walking my dog every day on a fallow piece of land that sits along train tracks and used to be the place where the slaughterhouses for the entire city were standing, basically in the middle of town. there still are beautifully cobbled pathways with huge basalt cobblestones but mostly the area is smashed stones, bricks and trampled earth, depleted of any soil. but as the year goes round one can see beautiful flowers and shrubs coming into season. right now there is a mass of light blue asters, tall grasses, thistles, and in may there are 30 different blooming species, at least the ones I could count. the plants behave a little like at Prospect Cottage, everything is slowed down, small but tough and resilient against the baking sun, wind, frost, rains. So this is a kind of “natural” gravel garden that can show us a little about which plants could be used and which thrive in such places, without having to make everything into mediterranean gardens, as beautiful as they may be.
Yes, these were among my favourite places to spend time in London :)
How lovely. I always found the empty lots teeming with wild plants and flowers so beautiful.