Taking the wonderful Street by Street Map book – Britain’s clearing street mapping with me, I set out to find something interesting.
Signs are often funny. Today I found three of interest.
trash bin
This decorated rubbish/trash bin was the highlight of the day. What a wonderful way to light up the dull and dreary winter months and make trash interesting.
This sign outside of the butcher’s shop made me smile to be back in England. Yes they still have butcher’s shops where the meat sit out in the window uncovered and ready to buy!
sign
A little dirty with road pollution, this sign refers to the ‘humps’ or ‘sleeping policemen’ as I knew them to be called as a teenager, are the bumps to slow down traffic on the very busy roads of London.
Hedges are the essence of England. I do not think there can be a garden anywhere that does not have a hedge of some kind. All trees, shrubs and woody perennials are sheared to create a barrier or a decorative look. I saw pines, arborvitae, forsythia, yews, beech and many others shrubs cut and sheared to fit into the garden or to cover walls.
sheared ivy hedge
decorative hedge
Viburnum Tinus ‘Spring Bouquet’ is one of the many Viburnums is this winter blooming evergreen shrub. It likes to be protected from the north winds and doesn’t enjoyed being pruned too heavily.
'Spring Bouquet'
Close up
Pink helleborus
Helleborus were everywhere and of course very beautiful. These are just two I managed to photograph from underneath to show off their exquisite coloring and beauty.
White Helleborus
They are shy nodding ladies of beauty and are best planted where one can look up into the center of the flower. Even though mine still hang there heads I have many clumps to enjoy when I walk through my garden in the winter.
this Ribes sanguineum ‘icicle’ white flowering Current was just too beautiful to pass up. It tiny flowers just beginning to uncurl in the drooping clusters.
White flowering Current
These Laurel flowers, were over spilling, unpruned and filling the earthy air with a pungent fragrance, along one side of a footpath I walked along.
Laurel Flowers
Jane
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