J.R.R. Tolkien's Oxford Garden

Oxfordian Author Gardens Series: Part 3

JRR Tolkien’s family home with his blue plaque on Northmoor Road, Oxford, UK.

“What else remained in the children’s memories? Long summer hours digging up the asphalt of the old tennis-court at 20 Northmoor Road to enlarge the vegetable-plot under the supervision of their father, who (like their mother) was an enthusiastic gardener, though he left much …