Comments on: A Garden For Thomas Fairchild

By: chrissie beesley

chrissie beesley — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:16:43 +0000

Really enjoyed your blogsthis week, Lin, thanks.

By: Pauline Taylor

Pauline Taylor — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 18:41:17 +0000

I too hope that this project will be successful, flowers mean such a lot to so many people and gardens provide a haven of peace and quiet from today’s hectic life styles both for the people and wildlife. My great grandfather had a florist’s shop and garden contractor’s business in Clapton so I have a special interest in this. Thank you for another piece of history!

By: pat Butt

pat Butt — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:27:39 +0000

Really enjoyed this one Lin, we at Decorfolia won a couple of plaques for our gardening (indoor) in the City from the Worshipful Company of Gardners. I had no idea that the history of Columbia Road market went back to domestic gardening.

By: Jacqueline Sarsby

Jacqueline Sarsby — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:50:51 +0000

I do hope you are successful with the Thomas Fairchild garden project and that the area blooms as it ought to. Fascinating to hear about the weavers’ gardens. People need both food and flowers: Armand Millet, one of the great, 19th century violet-growers outside Paris, said that people wanted flowers as much as food after the siege of Paris, and his father (also a florist in the old sense) told him that during the French Revolution people gave each other flowers in the streets. Bravo! to growers, even if you only have a window-box or a balcony.

By: Beryl Happe

Beryl Happe — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:19:15 +0000

Great stuff again Lin.

By: Achim

Achim — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:25:03 +0000

Yes, it would be a nice touch to keep this commemoration alive! Hope you will be successful!

Love & Peace
ACHIM

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:57:27 +0000

I hope they manage to get the funding for the memorial garden, that would be great! Thanks for another nice article. Valerie