🙌Our second volunteering day with Southern Housing staff and residents! ☀️Another busy day in the sunshine fixing up the rooftop garden at Marlborough House. Today we: 🔨 We finished most of the raised beds ✂️Added lining to each one 🪱 Filled t
🌿 A very special session with the Carpenters Gardeners today celebrating all things HERBS! ✂️ propagating herbs ☕️ tasting different herb teas 👃 smell tests 🌿 herb identification 🧡 how to care for your herbs 🍴 discussing herb uses 👀 There are
🍃A beautiful borage spotted dancing in the Carpenters food garden last week🍃 🌸Borage is our pollinator plant in our calendar this month. 🌸Borage is a really important flower as it provides a lot of nectar for all types of insects. It also flowe
🧅 Natural Dyeing at the Carpenters 🧅 It was great to be back at the Carpenters Estate this week! We did a little intro into easy dyeing with onion skins but we will be back again soon as we are running a series of workshops over the next few mon
✨ A HUGE thank you to @volunteering_uk for organising the wonderful team from QBE to spend the day spring cleaning the Charterhouse Community Garden! 🧹 After winter the garden was in much need of a little tidy. The team, with help from residents, s
☀️A lovely morning at Fieldgate Communal Garden where we were running the first of 3 sessions with the woman’s gardening group! 🌱There are 14 women who use the space to grow vegetables each year. 🌱We made plans for extra planters, prepared
🌱✨It’s May ✨🌱 Our pollinator plant for this month is the wonderful Borage! 🐝 Borage is one of the most beneficial plants for pollinators! 🌸The flowers are magnets for hungry insects such as bees, butterflies and hover flies. Especially
🐝 The bees were going wild today for the Green Alkanet that’s popped up at Kennaway Community Garden! 🌱Green Alkanet is irresistible to bees and other pollinators. It also makes an amazing ‘weed tea’ 🍵 🪣 Pick a bunch and leav
🌷The Spring bulbs at Charterhouse are in full bloom! 🌷 🧅 Residents planted these last year and it’s so lovely to see them adding so much colour to the garden - especially on a grey day like today! 🧹 Today we did some spring cleaning and
🌼 🔔 A few last shots of Bells in bloom before we packed it down last week! 🔔 🌼 ☀️We had hoped we’d have another summer but alas the development gods weren’t in our favour! 😢 ✨It’s been a lot of fun, thank you to everyone who
🌊 Today we popped down to St Leonard’s to meet with residents from Marlborough House* to discuss their rooftop garden. 🌸We last visited here in Autumn to plant spring bulbs - it was so lovely to see them blooming today! 🪴It has a wonderful