Our curiosity was piqued having walked along under the tall Lambeth Palace garden wall a number of times on the way to visit the Garden Museum. So we couldn't resist a peek when we found out the oldest continuously cultivated garden in London was open on the first Wednesday of the month.
We were able to purchase a Helleborus foetidus seedling and some pots of the Florentina Iris we'd admired in the chapel garden - we plan to plant them behind our new pond.
We ❤ the Queen Elizabeth Hall roof garden; kudos that it is still thriving after three years and with so many people using it, so we nipped up to take a peek at the John Lewis 150 years celebratory roof garden as we were passing by. We liked the hundreds-and-thousands Mexican fleabane sprinkled through the planting; sweet. It was fun to get a quirky view of the rooftops of London Town. We thought the number of friendly staff chaperoning us up the stairs unsustainable and crossed our fingers and wished that more bare rooftops would be planted up as green roofs.
An upside-down-tree on the South Bank, what, what?
We took a little breather in the South Bank Centre's rooftop garden. Bliss, this is something worth shouting about.
Since we were passing by, we made some time to visit Culpeper Community Garden to take a peek at the smooth newts that make a home of the pond.
We spotted our first Flag Iris of the season.
An errand to the West End, and a good excuse to take a peek at Phoenix Garden, an all-time favourite secret community garden, tucked away behind St Giles Church, minutes away from Tottenham Court Rd tube station. The bumblebees were revelling in the dead nettle, euphorbia, dog violets and primrose. The Jenny Wrens and Blue Tits were flitting about the boggy wildlife pool and the Blackbirds were riffling through the composting bins. Oh joy!
