Garden News

Items about gardening in east London and campaigns being led by The East London Garden Society which you can support.

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• NEW - Beware of Mystery Seeds from China
• NEW - Hidden Greenhouse Garden
• NEW - The Urban Tree Festival 2020
• 400 year old tree to be cut down despite petition to save it
• Ancient trees - give legal right not to be felled.
• Bee school for Millwall Park and arches meadow.
• Benefits of clover
• Bethnal Green mulberry tree soon to be no more.
• Community garden working to bounce back following a burglary.
• Derelict area transformed.
• Double tree cover.
• Failure of chemical dependent farming system.
• Forest ecosystems with diversity of plants, animals & fungi
• Glyphosate ban - how it occurred
• Glyphosate damages rose beds.
• Great Eastern Parks Route
• Green revolution changed agricultural practices
• Hackney’s streets change to combat climate emergency.
• Hidden universe beneath our feet
• Lea Valley - three main threats
• London’s highest vegetable patch.
• London woodland fights for its life
• Loss of green field sites
• Mabley park in Hackney metamorphoses.
• Mammals survey - join the living
• Mayor ditches key election promise to plant two million trees
• Milan - how it deals with pollution
• Millwall Park Viaduct - what to do with it?
• New development will overshadow resident homes.
• Park should be a park
• Polyculture - allow weeds to exist
• Rebel botanists use graffiti to name forgotten flora.
• Strange alpine plant growing in Patagonia.
• Tower Hamlets clear nature reserve, an area of scientific interest.
• Trees felled as Tower Hamlets declare climate emergency.
• Trees at Highbury Corner - help save them
• Tree manefesto
• Urban farmers call for Town Hall support for local food growing
• Weavers Fields - report from meeting