A Restaurant Portrait of a Pub in London, UK

by Jennifer Skopp

During her trip to London, Jennifer Skopp saw this pub that had dozens and dozens of plants that were displayed on the outside of the building. She wondered, how are these plants were watered?

This pub looked very British. It occupied the ground floor and had a red exterior and brown wooden doors. The pub had semi-circle shaped windows directly above the rectangular ones. The building had two floors above the pub that looked residential, and the exterior was made of bricks. The borders of the roof had plants in window boxes and there was a small, enclosed structure with four windows. It looked too small to be a penthouse apartment.

The pub is called Crown & Anchor and Jennifer worried about using the real name. She painted Ship & Anchor instead, but realized that she worried for no reason. The building is on the corner and Jennifer decided to show both sides of the building for this “Watercolor Restaurant Portrait.” On the top corner of the building is a bluish gray dome that Jennifer thought was very unusual.

Jennifer decided to leave the building as a silhouette in the painting, but included the cobblestones to give it a base.

Her British friend said that there is a hose system in place to water the plants, but she still wonders how they water the hanging ones.