In search of winter gardening
Well belated happy New Year to you all. I was in France for Christmas and the New Year and yup - it's cold over there, but not as bloomin' cold as it's been here! I was planning on going up to the allotment to start digging and getting things in order for 2009, but frozen solid ground is not the best to dig;although now it's a little milder I'll start turning over the rougher areas and then hope another sharp frost will help to break it up further. I can't wait.
It's this time of year, the weeks after Christmas that really drag for me and like many others I'm sure I just wish spring started in Jan/Feb!
I did manage to get my hit of gardening however as, when we were in Paris, we stopped by the museum Quai Branly (a fabulous modern building on the Seine). The gardens are imaginatively landscaped in a contemporary, naturalistic yet ordered fashion and give you a taste of the wonderful collection of art from indigenous Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas inside. There's also one of Patrick Blanc's first, 'Green wall' or 'mur vegetal', which may have been an experimental exercise when he first made it 10 or so years ago, but I have to say it looks lush and mature now, and on a cold winter's day it certainly warmed our spirits!
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