Mar 262011
Piccadilly
Nobody on the March for the Alternative today took the blindest bit of notice of one of the UK’s best green walls, at the Athenaeum Hotel on Piccadilly. I can’t think why! Actually my friend Jo said she wouldn’t have noticed it if I hadn’t pointed it out – maybe because Londoners rarely look up. It’s designed by French trailblazer Patrick Blanc.
I was too busy photographing the wall to notice the sign that the guy in the stripey top was carrying…
I'm a gardening journalist without a garden (I'm currently looking for one, preferably with a home attached). In the meantime, I'm appreciating other people's gardening efforts - big and small, urban and suburban, amateur and professional. I'm peering over fences and through garden gates looking for ideas and inspiration - mostly in London, where I live. I take all of the pictures on a compact Panasonic Lumix LMC-DX3.
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I was too busy looking for a Pret A Manger to get a hazlenut mochachino with extra cream.. Great photo.
P.S. Was that you on the front cover of today’s Sunday Times in the balaclava by the way???!