A colleague told me about this place a while ago, and as we had a lovely sunny break in the rain on Wednesday I decided to go along to see what it was like.
The Phoenix Garden is a community garden in Covent Garden, just off Shaftesbury Avenue (it's on Stacey St - turn off next to the Odeon). It's a gorgeous quiet space with lots of flowers, a couple of ponds, plenty of benches and a LOT of insects. Watch out if you don't like flying stingy things; I know bees aren't going to sting me but aaaaaaaaargh they make me jump.
There's also other wildlife - the damselflies were particularly exciting to me - including a cat that was enjoying the sunshine.
I'd like to tell everyone to go (and pretty much the first email I sent the next day was telling people where it was) but then it would get crowded so...maybe don't all go at once?
And some of the flowers growing in the garden:
Website: http://www.thephoenixgarden.org/
So for the last four or five days of the egg hunt, most of the eggs were in Covent Garden - not all of them, and not all on display - some were just being stored. I went round a couple of times and took photos, so here are the ones I got:
These ones were in shop windows; apologies for the reflections, there was nothing I could do about it.
