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Oscar and Hazel are both retired - but of course busier than ever! Oscar - a retired, but active professional trumpet player - sees the garden as a great way of escaping the stress of having to hit those high notes on his trumpet, and spends many hours raising his own plants from seed, or sometimes from plug plant, which he buys by mail order. |
The rear garden is the pride and joy - always a riot of colour with some great view from any part of the small garden. Bedding plants are in evidence, but so are the climbing roses adorning the fence.
The Bexleyheath patch is very much a three-dimensional garden, with plenty of depth and distant views through a rustic screen halfway down the garden, and the vertical plane catered for with every space on the surrounding fence being a home to a climber.
A few choice ornaments, complete the picture, with the water feature near the patio emitting gentle cooling sounds of rippling water, whilst the bird bath further from the house attract all manner of birds into the garden.
Paul's Scarlet is a favourite climbing rose, and the deep reds are foiled with the subtle golden yellow flowers of Hypericum.
In the London suburbs, the garden is host to a wide range of birds - ranging from a kestrel (but minus the unfortunate dove!), Parrots of sorts, and a 'large bird', not a heron and somewhere between a stork and a pelican!
Oscar has a greenhouse for raising his seedlings, and also keeps many of his other tender plants - Pelargoniums, Fuchsias and Begonias etc - from year to year.
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