Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

Hanami in the hood #blossomwatch

Share your pictures of the best blossom in the neighbourhood with us. I'll start

Railway Fields

Umfreville Road

Pemberton Road

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on March 24, 2022 at 18:28

This is such a lovely invitation, Liz! And of course you introduced me and many others to the Japanese word hanami. (About which I am trying to stir curiosity in our three marvellous granddaughters.)

Currently my eyesight is poor and as a result so is my photography. But I'd like to encourage others to pick up the challenge. How wide is the "neighbourhood"?

I have a worry that the pressure (and temptation) to build/extend/infill/demolish and over-tower every scrap of land may be leading to serious loss of tree cover in back gardens and elsewhere. Might we end up with a sort of "Potemkin" illusion when adding street trees gives a false impression of steady progress. But concealing an overall loss?

In effect making street trees like Joni Mitchell's Tree Museum. Prices updated in 2007 as you know.

They took all the trees
Put ’em in a tree museum
And they charged all the people
An arm and a leg just to see ‘em’.

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Permalink Reply by EMC2 on March 24, 2022 at 19:50

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Permalink Reply by Dan77 on March 24, 2022 at 20:46

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Permalink Reply by Dan77 on March 24, 2022 at 20:47

Sussex Gardens, with bonus clematis armandii

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Permalink Reply by JulieB on March 24, 2022 at 20:53

Great thread!

Magnolia, my garden. It's been a great year for it this year, for the last couple of years I've had only a few flowers.

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Permalink Reply by Gordon T on March 25, 2022 at 9:04

Umfreville. These posies of blossom straight out of the trunk are an arresting sight [click to enlarge].

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Permalink Reply by Liz on March 25, 2022 at 10:47

Beautiful pics. Keep them coming! Last night walking back up Cavendish Road we stopped for a little night hanami - cherry blossom at night

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on March 25, 2022 at 17:09

I was filling my boots at the wonderful Glebe Nursery this afternoon and dropped in to the walled garden at Forty Hall. It's not local but it gives good blossom. A few phone pics.

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Permalink Reply by Liz on March 29, 2022 at 14:58

So lovely!

Here's a tree in Cavendish Road adding to the joy

and a tree overlooking the Harringay Passage

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Permalink Reply by JulieB on March 29, 2022 at 15:44

My son and I suffer horribly from hay fever and usually by this time of year we're a mess. But this year, so far, we have had only very mild symptoms. Has anyone else noticed this locally? I'm wondering what the change could be.

Beautiful magnolia next to my son’s college