Streets – London

I love taking one-point and three-point perspective photos of streets.
Below is Elder Street (E1) in London.

 

A Hackney garden in summer – part 2

My second update on gardening progress this summer.
I finally found the best suited space for an ivy plant I had for the last four years – it is now on the terrace, facing North-East and finally doing very well:

 I love spring and summer in London

In June it was time to come up with some new decoration outside the front door:

And see the runner beans grow taller

Autumn decoration

I thought it’d be good to show you our new autumn front door decoration. You may remember last year’s hanging basket.
This year, I found a large metal planter and decided to up-cycle it.  Having cleaned the container and found a pot that could fit into it, I spent £15 at Columbia Road Flower Market to get these plants:

The white fruit of the plant above, turn orange over time (perfect for Halloween) and then red for Christmas. 

The ivy is growing and the plants are easily maintained. The cyclamen have flowered for two months already.
The trick is to deadhead faded blossoms and new ones will keep developing. You can also see, the white fruit are turning orange. 

Our neighbour downstairs seems to like the decoration as well as she bought the same plants
matching her window ledge to my front door pot.

For Halloween, on the kitchen window I arranged two pumpkins.
Have you ever seen white pumpkins before?! I had’nt. 

The yellow polyanthus on the left have been flowering all year round since last autumn. Really remarkable.
Now that the weather is cooler, I moved the pumpkins inside next to the carob plants grown from seeds. 

Have you created your own autumn decoration? I’d like to know all about it!