Louise is dwarfed by her giant sunflowers
Sometimes towards the end of last century Louise Gibbs and I lived and gardened in Mt Victoria, Wellington. Then Louise went off to the UK to further her singing career (listen while you read) and I took my circuitous route of research, writing and teaching in other places to my current home-of-the-heart on Banks Peninsula.
Thanks to a mutual friend passing on news of my blog to Louise we reconnected recently, and she sent photos of her allotment garden in Leeds.
As she says: ''Just to show you that there is sun in the north of England - even to the extent that sunglasses are necessary''.
There must be enough to grow this great crop of lettuces - and broccoli which has been netted to keep the pigeons off.
Also to give a wonderful harvest to cover the kitchen table.
(Although I am sure Louise did a bit of the work involved as well.)
If any other Kiwis reading this have a garden far from home - please send me a photo and tell me about it.
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