On our travels today we popped into Peckham Rye Park and discovered the community wildlife garden there that we never even knew about, even though we’ve visited the park a many few times.

We loved the info sign on the way in which has in the top right hand corner, a picture with the caption “Gardeners in the greenhouses in the 1960’s”. A couple of younger blokes are around an older chap (the foreman?) wearing a hat, jacket and tie in a Cyril Fletcher (That’s Life and ATV gardener) stylee. I mean we all want to be stylish in the garden but we do think the older guy would have racked up a few bob in dry cleaning bills if he was in that attire say working around the pond or digging a load of Pyracantha out of some flower beds. Saying that he looked very smart indeed though and so does the wildlife garden.

The chap reminds us when we worked at Westminster City Council and one of the park attendants (AKA “Mr Clean”) used to use the cleanliness of his work clothing as an excuse not to work. He used to wear a (spotless) brown council park keeper’s suit all of the time and we don’t think we had ever seen him in overalls (that every park keeper was given on their first day). Perhaps he’d conveniently left it on the bus on his first day. Who knows but he did get out of doing quite a lot of work using that excuse.

Any stylish gardening clothing tips from out there in the Weeds gardening universe?