Re: Gardening for Passers-By

Tim Longville wrote:
> 
> A slight twist to the thread...
> 
> Our house is a proper Victorian British 'town-house.' That means it
> fronts directly onto the street, with only a space of about four feet
> between (equally proper Victorian...) cast iron railings and the front
> wall of the house. In summer, this space and the steps up to the house
> are filled with plants in pots and tubs  ...
> 
> BUT (and this is where the twist comes in) we've also got two (proper
> Victorian, again) bay windows and the house faces due south. So, in
> winter, a couple of old scrubbed pine kitchen tables are dragged into
> those window and filled with winter-flowering exotics, mostly Southern
> hemisphere plants flowering in winter in the North: lots of abutilons,
> lots of S. African and Australian bulbs, lots of Australian shrubs.
> They're brought in from the greenhouse when they're about to flower
> and then 'retired' back to it when their flowering's done.
> 

 Tim 
Love the sound of your winter display, wish I could come and see it, 
but I am glad to know summer has finally reached you - long may it
last!!

I can remember striking the low 90s in Cambridge (that would have been
'48, I think). One simply _had_ to sleep with open windows and hundreds
of moths came in and bang bang banged on the ceiling. I suppose there
would have been more about in those days before modern pesticides got
going.

We never get such temperatures around Wellington even though our
antipodes is Madrid. That's what comes of living in the middle of a lot
of sea.

Moira

-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, 
New Zealand (astride the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
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