My favourite buildings in London: The house overgrown by ivy in De Beauvoir, Hackney

One of my favourite buildings in London is in Southgate Grove (N1)

Flower meadow update

The blog post about Hackney’s biggest ever wild flower meadow has been updated. If you’d like to see the latest, take a look here.

North American Landscape at the British Museum

There is still time to visit the North American Landscape at the British Museum

The fifth landscape installation created in collaboration with Kew Gardens, is open daily until 25th of November 2012 and free for all visitors.
Among the plants on display are the carnivorous pitcher plants:

orange coneflowers:

 and echinacea:

Previous installations at the British Museum included,
an Australian Landscape in 2011:

and a South African Landscape in 2010.

 

My favourite buildings in London: The house with a roof terrace in Hackney

One of my favourite buildings in London is at 63A Fremont Street in Hackney

It has an unusual triangular shape, that’s simply fascinating. On one side it is so thin, it almost looks like a theatrical scenery

and it is wonderful to look at it from a distance imagining how perhaps one day you could have an urban garden on a terrace like that yourself.