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| Gardens in the Pound, Cookham, Berkshire, Stanley Spencer, c1937 |
I saw a family coming out of Stanley Spencer's house on the High Street and was dying to ask if there was still a Williams pear tree in the garden, a laburnum, an apple tree with giant apples, a cherry tree and a walnut tree and yellow marguerites. You can't see the back garden from the street. But I missed my chance and they were gone ...
2 comments:
That reminds me of the years I lived in Eastcote, Middlesex, the neighbours all had those red Salvia, blue Lobelia and white Baby's Breath, every year, in exactly the same pattern. Comforting and boring as I look back on it now.
Don't you love Spencer's work?
Of course, it's Salvia - that's what I meant! I'm hopeless on plant names.
I think if I owned one of these houses, I'd want to keep the garden the same as it was in the painting. They were so spruce and neat back then - and they look rather scruffy today.
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