Things change...

[poliphilo]

The view from our bedroom window has changed.

Sameena-next-door has dispensed with her garden and is putting down a pavement.

I remember how lovingly Nelly-next-door used to tend her flowerbed. I saw her working out there just days- maybe it was just hours- before she died.  It makes me wistful.

Comments

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why so many English people tend to pave the front garden. If you don't want to do garden work, why not plant a shrubbery that will cost a fraction of the pavement and require little more attention? Not all plants require weeding and watering and preening and whatever... Gratuitous pavement belongs outside the garden wall/fence/hedge!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Our front yard- what there is of it- is planted with stuff that requires zero maintenance and which grows back every year.