Skyline Garden

This weekend is Open Garden Squares Weekend in London, a chance to see some of the gardens and squares that are usually closed to the public. I was lucky enough this year to win tickets in the ballot to visit the Coutts Skyline Garden, on the roof of the Coutts building in the Strand. It lies on each side of a narrow walkway around the roof, lined with troughs and tubs in the bays between windows. There is a fantastic variety of fruit, herbs and vegetables, and produce from the garden is used in the building's restaurant.
At one of the other gardens we visited, I came across this poem by Dorothy Frances Gurney, which sums up much of what I feel gardens can offer us:
Kiss of the sun for pardon.
Song of the birds for mirth.
You're closer to God's heart in a garden
Than any place on earth.