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Article: Share the city; Jinny Blom's inner-city garden next to a railway embankment is a beautiful haven, not just for people, but for the local wildlife.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 21, 2004
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Byline: PATTIE BARRON
IF FOXES, frogs and the local wildlife are going to come into your back garden, you might as well make them feel at home.
This is the thinking behind garden designer Jinny Blom's dreamy patch of plants and pond perched on a hill above a railway embankment in New Cross.
"Four years ago, after a dismal summer that was so wet I could hardly use a mower, I decided to get rid of my lawn and replace it with decking," she says. "And I thought I'd design the garden around visiting animals. We had foxes that made tracks across the garden, frogs and fieldmice with nowhere to go, occasional ducks; I thought, I'd love to be able to ...