Southampton General Hospital
Weather-wise you couldn't have had two such contrasting days. Yesterday's gale force winds and rain (remnants of Storm Bert) and today's wall to wall sunshine.
To try and get some oxygen into my lungs (doctors orders), I went on a venture this morning, after my 3 hour blood transfusion, and ended up in the Macmillan Garden. The garden sits in a void surrounded by 4 walls stretching several floors up.
To try and get some oxygen into my lungs (doctors orders), I went on a venture this morning, after my 3 hour blood transfusion, and ended up in the Macmillan Garden. The garden sits in a void surrounded by 4 walls stretching several floors up.
The entrance to the Macmillan Cancer Support Gardens.
Step inside and you are immediately surrounded by the walls of the 5 floors of the hospital.
Four work tables......
....a couple with seedlings coming through, another with pots of herbs and the fourth with a work to.
Here are a couple of photos.....
........of the garden.
A Smooth Japanese Sycamore (Acer palmatum).........
......A close-up of one of the remaining leaves
My initial thought was this was Fig......
..........but in fact it is the paperplant Fatsia (Fatsia japonica)......
...It also goes by the names of Paperplant, False Castor Oil Plant and Japanese aralia.
I think this is a Japanese Snowball (Viburnum plicatum japan). If so it is certainly a stunning looking shrub. More on this shrub here.
And me! Well today I had my blood transfusion from 7 -10am this morning and i have just started my second one, 17:30 -20:30.
And at long last it appears that the microbiology team have found the rogue infection which is in my left lung. That would certainly explain why I am continually short of breath.