Micro gardens

Hello again,

Just a quick example of micro-gardens at their best - one deliberate, one accidental.

The first image shows what can be done in a tiny space if the determination is there. On a street corner, getting hardly any sun, you have a simple bench, raised containers and the space surrounded by a railing. As a garden, it's not perfect by any means but I love it. It shows a will and a commitment to have a garden that not many would bother with. Well done.

Secondly, the accidental garden. Three chimney stacks; two containing the common Buddleia (which seems to find its way into every nook and cranny as a "pioneer" plant) and, more impressively, another containing ferns.

I know some people will say that the plants will damage the brickwork blah, blah, blah but do you know, I simply don't care. It might be permanent, it might be temporary but it is a great little habitat while it lasts.

I love these horticultural curiosities and discovering them by chance is fantastic. If you know of, or see any more of them then please take a photo and email them to me at simon@waterwell.co.uk

Until next time...