Rus in Urbs

Posted on the 23 July 2012 by Elizabethwix

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Snipped on the roof. When mint flowers, it pretty much stops growing.

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A nosegay of basil, dried up lavender and the same old mint.

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The planters on the roof seem to thrive amidst builders' debris -- too much sun, too much wind -- but growing things in the middle of the city is especially sweet.

Looking downtown

and across the road.

On street level the plants survive too -- after daily removal of cigarette butts, soda cans etc. The orange cosmos looking a bit ratty.

The middle tree pit is in almost complete shade under a big tree -rather an effort to force it to bloom.....