Property News · June 10, 2018

Summer in the city: the colours of London


From window boxes to back yards and green parks, this season fills the streets with flowersGeraniums are red, lobelia are blue. My first job in London was at a posh plant nursery. I worked outside in the square selling plants for gardens and window boxes. I would take my lunch break in Holland Park. I was a teenager. I was squatting and super happy.Window-box flowers were mostly geraniums, pelargoniums, lobelia, hanging petunia. Geraniums were red, sometimes ivy-leaf and hanging. Lobelia were dark blue and trailing, same as the petunias. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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