Ruth Pavey

Ruth Pavey celebrates the vivid flowers displayed outside pubs in Highgate during a dry period, highlighting begonias, petunias, geraniums, fuchsias and impatiens as cheerful alternatives to muted drought-tolerant planting. She also praises Susan Bennett and Earl Hyde’s colourful Muswell Hill garden, which has supported National Garden Scheme fundraising for three decades, noting that they intend to continue at least through the scheme’s centenary. The piece concludes with details of upcoming horticultural fairs, flower shows and garden openings in North London.