Our front garden is an oasis!
OK so that's not quite what the neighbours call it, but nonetheless, it is.
Our entire road is concrete hell, all the front gardens have been paved over to make way for the compulsory 3-4 cars each house has. But our front garden is green from the front border to the house.
We also have a pond that is swarming with life. Its only diddy, our garden is only about 30ft square, and our pond is about 5ft by 4ft, but we counted 54 frogs in it last year. We have the occasional newt looking back at us, and bugs by the million.
We can't see the road, there are too many trees and bushes blocking the way, its a beautiful wall of green.
Concrete has an advantage though (not that we'd even consider it), you don't have to cut it. Today we have been cutting back the Hawthorn (Ouch), Ivy (itch) and Honeysuckle that is threatening to overthrow us in some kind of ecological military coup.
The ivy had already made its way through the double glazing in the hall... so it needed to be stopped!!
Little Acorn has been marvelling at all the wildlife this has turned up, spiders, woodlice, ladybirds, earwigs, things with far too many legs and threatening looking beetles (why do they carry a shield if they are not expecting a fight??).
We have discovered mice in the garage (we have 5 cats...who have now been placed on "find it yourself" rations), a big fat toad and hedgehogs.
How did they all get here? They must have survived the trek across the concrete jungle to the safety of our garden.
We have also talked about the rhubarb, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, gooseberries, black and red currants, beans, tomatoes, Hazel nuts and herbs herbs herbs that we have growing there.
Aside from that, while Dads been building his shed, we have been to the library. We listened to the stories and poems, and got some more books. We've listened to happy music and sad music (as identified by little acorn) and talked about accents. We live in Leicestershire, but I was born in Suffolk and Rich in Kent, so we don't have local accents and it has been noted!!!
1 comment:
good for you for having green. grren is good. We are rebellious too. We only hvae a tiny back garden, no room for flowers and vegetables (and i do so love flowers) so we turned the front garden into a vegetable patch instead.
Fascinates people. Most people think it is wonderful, one or two very strange people who are totally out of touch with reality seem horrified that we actually eat food grown in dirt. Their food comes in plastic wrappers and was grown in special clean dirt no doubt. I ramble......
I think human milk should be available in little boxes in the supermarket dont you? I certainly had enough to share. They could advertise it like coca cola "it's the real thing"
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