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Category Archives: Gardening
Shirley’s wild garden opens its gates for a royal celebration
Staff at a Croydon care home will be using their historic garden to host a street party picnic. Wilderness Gardens is a seven-acre historic garden situated on Shirley Church Road within MHA Hall Grange, a care home that offers residential … Continue reading
Public parks are suffering effects of decades of malign neglect
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The loss of the council’s professional gardeners, as reported earlier this week, is the latest stage in a long process that has eroded a once-proud civic service, says LEWIS WHITE Council parks departments used to have area senior … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Gardening
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Parks, Parks Service
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Council gardeners are now an endangered species in Croydon
CROYDON COMMENTARY: While the new Mayor announces the restoration of some services, such as the graffiti-cleaning team, other parts of the fabric of the borough are still vanishing, like red-list endangered species, in this year’s £38m round of cut-backs. PETER … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Gardening, Heathfield House, Mayor Jason Perry, Peter Underwood, South Croydon
Tagged Conservative, Coombe Wood, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Memorial Ground, Croydon Council, Croydon Mayor, Grounds Maintenance, Haling Grove, Heathfield House, Jason Perry, Mayor Jason Perry, South Croydon, Tory, Waddon, Waddon Ponds, Wettern Tree Gardens
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St Matthew’s Flower Festival, Park Hill, June 11-12
Posted in Church and religions, Gardening
Tagged Chichester Road, Park Hill, St Matthew's Church
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Mayor digs in to plant a Jubilee cherry tree at Mayday
The local NHS Trust and the Mayor of Croydon staged a joint ceremony yesterday to dig in and contribute to the Queen’s Green Canopy – a tree-planting initiative being run to coincide with celebrations around the 70th anniversary of the … Continue reading
Stars help Bensham Manor pupils get back to their roots
Levi Roots, the sauce-maker-turned-TV-star, and “the Black Farmer”, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, have teamed up with a Lottery-funded company in Croydon to show young children how to grow food and become sustainable. Pamper Indulge and Give – which wallows in its acronym … Continue reading
Hope Is Everything: Rookery gardens gets a Gervais bench
Today is supposed to be “Blue Monday”, which some claim to be the gloomiest day of the year. But depression doesn’t care what day it is, which is one of the reasons why CALM – the Campaign Against Living Miserably … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon parks, Gardening, Health, Norbury, Outside Croydon
Tagged After Life, Netflix, Norbury, Ricky Gervais, Streatham, Streatham Common, The Rookery
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How Coulsdon’s downland oasis is helping to save the planet
NATURE NOTES: The City of London rangers who look after Farthing Downs, Coulsdon Common and other precious green spaces are as hard at work over the bleak midwinter months as the rest of the year, including important projects to unlock … Continue reading
Posted in City Commons, Croydon parks, Education, Environment, Friends of Farthing Downs, Gardening, History, Nature Notes, South London Downs NNR, Wildlife
Tagged Brian Hope-Taylor, City Commons, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Common, Farthing Downs, Friends of Farthing Downs and Happy Valley, Happy Valley
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Garden centre plants a seed with children’s activity sessions
Dobbies, the garden centre chain, has relaunched its Little Seedlings Club for budding gardeners aged from four to 10, with the first sessions at its Woodcote Green centre in Sutton this Sunday, October 3. Packed full of activities, tutorials and … Continue reading
Help wildlife find a home for winter in your gardens
As we enter autumn, many species of wildlife will be looking for a place to stay and hibernate as the cold months pass. Gardens across Croydon will be acting as a home and there are small things that gardeners can … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon parks, Environment, Gardening, Wildlife
Tagged Coombe Wood Gardens, Gardening
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Selhurst allotment-holders are hit by one-man crime wave
WANTED: Do you know this man? The hard-pressed gardeners and veg growers of the Selhurst and South Norwood Allotments have been seeing rather too much of this character since the start of July. They have had regular visits from this … Continue reading
Croydon In Crisis: Now council wants to charge kids to play
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Our cash-strapped council is so hard-up, they want to charge kids hundreds of pounds for the simple pleasure of playing in the street outside their homes. EMMA HOPE-FITCH explains Back in 2015, I had the pleasure of organising … Continue reading
Use your little corner of Planet Earth to make a big difference
In his small patch of south London, DAVID MORGAN has been doing his bit in the battle to reduce the impact of climate change, and here he offers suggestions about how you can help, too “Every plant counts and too … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon parks, David Morgan, Environment, Gardening, Wildlife
Tagged Climate change, David Morgan, Gardens
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Whitgift Foundation sows the seeds of a green revival
The Whitgift Foundation, Croydon’s biggest landowners and the operators of three large fee-paying schools, has launched an ambitious borough-wide gardening project to inspire residents to shrug off lockdown, dust off the trowels and get green-fingered as we spring into spring. … Continue reading
RSPB’s Birdwatch weekend offers a perfect lockdown activity
The 2021 Big Garden Birdwatch takes place this weekend, from Friday January 29 to Sunday January 31. And organisers, the RSPB, hope that even during lockdown – perhaps because of lockdown – it’s going to be the biggest piece of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Gardening, Wildlife
Tagged Big Garden Birdwatch Weekend, Chris Packham, RSPB
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Five tips for improving mental health through gardening
The Bethlem Royal Hospital is raising funds to help its patients recover from severe mental illness in the calming environment of their therapy garden. Under this year’s Big Give appeal, which runs from December 1 to 8, every £1 raised … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Environment, Gardening, Health
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Give a little, help a lot: comic Jo Brand backs Bethlem appeal
TV comic Jo Brand is backing an appeal from the Bethlem Royal Hospital, where she used to work as a mental health nurse, to raise funds to help patients recover from severe mental illness in the calming environment of the … Continue reading
Cut the mowing: how to transform your garden for wildlife
CROYDON COMMENTARY: After surveys this summer reported a decline in butterfly and moth populations across the country, LEWIS WHITE, a retired landscape architect with decades of experience, offers his advice on how to make your garden more wildlife-friendly this autumn … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Environment, Gardening, Wildlife
Tagged Butterfly Conservation, Coulsdon, Lewis White
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National Allotment Week highlights benefits of garden produce
Bluebird Care Croydon is going green this month and is backing National Allotments Week, which begins tomorrow. The National Allotment Society strives to protect, promote and preserve allotments. Their campaign has been running annually for the last 18 years and … Continue reading
