LITTLE GARDENS ON WINDOW LEDGES
A London woman gardener who specialises in making miniature gardens on window ledges has ali'eady booked many orders for Coronation window gardens, and her floral eolour schemes, carried out on a tiny scale, will show the splendour of purple aubrietia, crimson saxifrage and white alyssum. Growing her plants in an charming old-world garden in Kensington, the artist makes up her gardens in her studio. Rhe specialises in children' s window gardens, and one she had carried out for a boy's nursery had a windmill and a well. Princess Elizabeth has a miniature garden desigtied by this gardener ; it was given to her by a friend and is placed near the Welsh dolls' house at Queen Elizabeth's Windsor home. It has a charming Greeian temple and an old-world stone seat set in between ihe little plants.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 6, 22 January 1937, Page 14
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