Hello again,
It's been exciting but Waterwell have installed the irrigation system in the brand new Sumatran Tiger Enclosure at London Zoo.
Costing £3.6m the new Tiger Territory is five times the size of the previous enclosure and includes trees, high platforms and even a custom pool for the Tigers to relax in as they love a bit of water.
The green space was designed by the successful Garden Designer, James Aldridge who certainly had to put his thinking cap on in order to come up with something that not only suited the atmosphere of a tiger enclosure but is able to thrive in the changeable British climate - definitely not your usual garden design brief.
However, the new enclosure is a success and the results speak for themselves - the new Tiger Territory is now London Zoo's flagship attraction.
Purr-fect
To book your tickets, go to http://www.zsl.org/zsl-london-zoo/londonzootickets/
Until next time...
Hello again
Last year must rank highly as one of the worst summers we've ever had.
It started so promisingly that you couldn't have imagined how it might pan out from there. It's easy to forget that after a dry winter before, it was really warm and dry until the end of March last year, so much so that the water companies were panicking and the hosepipe ban was introduced at the beginning of April. That proved to be the catalyst that triggered the rain, and crikey did it rain last summer. It rained almost incessantly, right through to the end of the year with, as I can recall, only two separate weeks of nice weather in that nine month period.
This year, by contrast, has started out in a more traditional pattern, with a wet early winter followed by a cold start to the year. We also seem to be proving the old adage that says "March comes in like a lion and leaves like a lamb" and it certainly has been a colder that usual start to March but now the weather is starting to improve. If we were then to continue to have a traditional year then next we have a nice Spring, we'll get April showers and then perhaps a traditional British summer, the kind of summer you remember from your youth - warm breezes, summer sunshine and evenings in the garden.
Here's hoping...
Until next time...
