Thank you to the volunteers who repositioned and raised the water butt beside the greenhouse, building a new platform from sleepers. It is working again!

Over 70 visitors came to our London Open House Festival day and appreciated our ‘beautiful and tranquil place’, a ‘recharge in the centre of town’, a ‘hidden gem in the neighbourhood’, a ‘wonderful and magical oasis’, Thank you to all the volunteers who helped to make the day such a success.

We are taking part in London’s Open House Festival on Saturday 21st September. Explore the garden, walk in the woodland, and join in our family activities.

Or try some volunteer gardening: apple harvest, leaf clearing, and mulching flower beds with our own compost.

Just drop in at any time, 11am – 3pm. Tea and cake will be available.

Huge thank you to our volunteers for their hard work stabilising our terracing and flower beds with wooden sleepers, replacing old disintegrating ones with the newly purchased sleepers.

We need volunteers to help with a variety of summer tasks in the garden, including watering, deadheading and spreading bark chip on the paths.

Or just come and visit us, walk in the woodland and rest on the patio.

Everyone welcome! Just drop in – 10am-4pm. Tea and cakes provided.

We found fantastic stag beetle larvae emerging from old wooden sleepers while preparing to renovate the vegetable patches, with our grant from the National Garden Scheme Community Garden Grants. We carefully relocated the larvae along with their wood. It can take 3 to 7 years before the larvae become adults. The stag beetle is protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.