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!

Oh, that..

[elegysostenuto.livejournal.com]

..is sad, I think. I much prefer the green of a garden. Perhaps they will decorate it with container plants.

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

Paving over front gardens is really detrimental to the environment, as well as inaesthetic; not only are you reducing biodiversity, but you're causing floods, because rainwater can't run-off into the soil, and instead overburdens the drains system. I'm sad looking at that. Also, that looks like evil Indian sandstone, but I might be wrong...

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

That´s sad.
They might have at least left some space around the edges for flowers. But as somebody said, maybe they´ll do container gardening. There´s nothing sadder than a barren concrete (or tiled) space in front of a house, for me anyway.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

Give her time... perhaps it will be a lovely patio. :-)

[oakmouse]

Sympathy. We had a neighbor once who paved her front yard and then painted the concrete green. :-p

Here's hoping this lady puts in a container garden...