I was wondering what to write about this week when, as I walked past St Paul’s Underground Station, the answer came to me when I saw this magnificent display of tulips …
So this week’s blog is a tribute to all the hard work that people put in to keep the City looking beautiful – especially the in-house City Gardens Team. You can read more about them here and their terrific record number of awards here. Sign up to their Newsletter to hear more about their ongoing projects and other work.
Just across the road alongside Cheapside is this display of Polyanthus, Hyacinths and soon-to-bloom tulips …
The beds at Postman’s Park have come alive (EC1A 7BT) …
To get to the St John Zachary garden in Gresham Street (EC2V 7HN) you walk under the leopard’s head symbol of the Goldsmith’s Company …
Inside I spotted Dicentra, or Bleeding Heart …
As well as these pretty little tulips …
And this Arum lily – Zantedeschia…
I have written about this garden in another blog where I discuss the interesting sculpture there. You can access it via this link.
Across the road, the Wax Chandlers’ Hall team have worked on their window boxes …
Onward to London Wall. St Olave Silver Street was totally destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 but it’s little churchyard lives on. A much weathered 17th century stone plaque records the terrible event …
This was the Parish Church of St Olave Silver street, destroyed by the dreadful fire in the year 1666.
Silver Street itself was annihilated in the Blitz and erased completely by post-war development and traffic planning.
Across the road, the old horse trough in has been planted up with pansies. You can see some more modern planters in the background containing Polyanthus …
The combined horse trough and drinking fountain has quite a history. You can read more about it in another of my blogs, Philanthropic Fountains.
On the the Barbican Estate, alongside St Giles Cripplegate Church (EC2Y 8DA), two varieties of magnolia are in bloom …
I spotted some more little tulips on the Barbican’s Beech gardens (EC2Y 8DE) …
My final destination was Bunhill Fields Burial Ground (EC1Y 2BG). I have written about it before in much greater detail and you can see the blog here …
It is wonderful that, after years of research, the final Bunhill resting place of William Blake was discovered last year and marked with this beautiful stone carved by Lida Cardozo …
I give you the end of a golden string/Only wind it into a ball/It will lead you in at Heavens gate/Built in Jerusalems wall
