Ruth Pavey
Jenny Baynes in her Muswell Hill Garden
- Credit: Nigel Sutton
At a recent gathering, Jenny Baynes was telling me about her garden, rejoicing in the radical changes it has undergone.
From having been overgrown it is now spacious and she is thrilled. When I went to Muswell Hill for a visit Jenny immediately said how she loved the wild fulsome look the garden had had before, but that it had been getting too much. In particular, the lolloping greenery was concealing the unevenness of the path.
Jenny moved into the house with her daughter and late husband twenty years ago. They liked the already mature garden’s sense of enclosure, with its old pear tree. They were also busy people (Jenny teaches literature and drama) so she just enjoyed some container gardening and hardly attended to the three sides of the 5 x 15 m plot.