Prize winners & Gardeners’ Question Time – Free Event, everyone welcome On Wednesday 28 October, we hold our annual prize giving for winners of the Late Summer Show. Then we have our Lambeth GQT, with a panel of local experts to offer advice on your horticultural quandries. Everyone is welcome – so bring friends, neighbours…Continue Reading “WEDNESDAY 28 OCTOBER: Autumn Social”
Plants and seeds are on sale at the Hut on 10 and 11 October. It’s a great chance to fill your pots and beds with old favourites and maybe some zany newcomers. It’s a fun event (sharp elbows advisable), where you can find lots of bargains. Don’t forget to BRING please – otherwise there will…Continue Reading “Bring & Buy 10th & 11th October”
In September, volunteers Laura and Alice gave us a guided tour of Brockwell Park’s walled garden, which has a fascinating array of plants and attracts a wide variety of pollinators. As Alice and Laura emphasised, the garden is an ornamental one, designed to have year-round interest. It has been replanted in stages over the past…Continue Reading “WGG Update: Brockwell Park Walled Garden”
An example of what Effra Green Streets has achieved on a local estate On Bank Holiday Monday, we visited the Effra Green Streets project, part of Lambeth Living Streets. The project is a community initiative to improve the streets just south of Brixton town centre. Effra Green Streets works with volunteers, residents and funders to…Continue Reading “WGG Update: Effra Green Streets”
In August, we visited the garden of WGG Coordinator Czech Conroy. In just 12 months, he has transformed a small, ho hum south London garden into a haven for pollinators, attracting a wide range of moths, bees and other pollinators. Native planting replaced a laurel hedge and he has installed both a pond and a…Continue Reading “WGG Update – a wildlife garden one year on”