My Garden, the City and Me by Helen Babbs

Author:Helen Babbs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2011-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

8. August

THE GARDENING HABIT

As a faintly impoverished twenty-something in rented accommodation, it can be a challenge to be a grower. It’s the challenge that makes it interesting though, that ‘against the odds’ element and the fact it’s perhaps slightly surprising even to try. What I love most about London is its endless capacity to surprise. With my new interest in growing has come the discovery that I’m not alone, that lots of city dwellers are getting inventive with out-of-the-ordinary spaces. My gardening ambitions don’t make me original at all.

I have new eyes now I’m officially an urban gardener, eyes that are attracted to pots balancing precariously on ledges and that see all spare spaces as a potential flower bed or vegetable patch. London is absolutely full of green spaces. There are the glorious parks, but there are also hundreds of smaller scale, more secret gardens that one can seek out – community gardens, allotments, local nature reserves and borough growing projects.

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