Tea is an important element in any garden - a refreshing cup essential whilst observing the garden and assessing the next task.
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Free summer holiday activities tuesday 14th and 21st August
Bring the kids along to help us make our signs with Art in the Park. All ages welcome to help build letters out of scrap and then help carve our tree totem. The workshops will take place at the garden on Glengall Rd / Surrey Canal walk.
A hot july weekend
As the park opened we decided to open up on saturday and fire up the pizza oven. Sunday got us slogging away again, watering, tidying, painting and mulching. We are also collecting your ideas and comments so why not pop by, fill in a red tag and t...
What a transformation!
We have been in possession of the site for just over a year, and started clearing the brambles and buddleia that dominated the area. It's been a slog, and the brambles want to be here, but we are going to plant a wide range of edible and medicinal...
Wall developments and soda bread
The garden is taking shape, albeit slowly..... Finally our retaining gabion wall is going up, our mounds are nearing completion and the cob oven has been tried and tested - and works! The wall utilises material found on site and is a useful way of...
Hugel kultur
Finally....our first 'hugelmound' is almost complete.... took a bit of practice because not quite as easy as it looks! Planters built, now the planting begins. Donations of plants very, very welcome.
Here come the planters…..!
Permaculture principles – a useful tool
pc_principles_poster.pdf
Discovering hidden treasures
The garden work has finally got going and the contractors have now completed the fence. Clearance has started, and a team from Groundwork have been pulling up stumps and bramble roots and making way for new garden elements that will soon be built....
Building the bones of the garden
From monday 30th April we'll be carrying out a range of construction works to install the bones of our garden. We'll be fencing the site to create a secure growing area that when finished will be open every day for park visitors. We'll also be cle...

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