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 - Network Rail Clearing Wildlife Corridor
• NEW - Suffragette Fanny Wilkinson
• NEW - Great Big Green Week (18 to 26 September)
• NEW - Trees and Technology
• 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 saved by campaigners.
• Beware of mystery seeds from China
• Bishopsgate Goodsyard (Forest Garden)
• Canning tomatoes
• Cavell Street Gardens
• Community garden working to bounce back following a burglary.
• Council Destroys Bat Boxes
• Derelict area transformed.
• Double tree cover.
• The Environment Debate
• Fight for The Sun
• Forest ecosystems with diversity of plants, animals & fungi
• Gardens in Lockdown
• Glyphosate ban - how it occurred
• Glyphosate damages rose beds.
• Great Eastern Parks Route
• Green revolution changed agricultural practices
• Greenways Map Launched
• Hackney’s streets change to combat climate emergency.
• Helping the local environment
• Heritage Seeds
• Hidden greenhouse garden
• Hidden universe beneath our feet
• Importance of Herbs
• Lea Valley - three main threats
• Limehouse Triangle Saga
• 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
• Pesticide-free Tower Hamlets
• Polyculture - allow weeds to exist
• Priory Court Estate Proposed Development
• Protected tree list for London
• Protection for rivers and lakes at risk
• Rebel botanists use graffiti to name forgotten flora.
• Rodenticide in public parks
• Security for East Ham Nature Reserve
• Shame on Tower Hamlets
• Sowing in the wind
• Statutory Protection for Trees and Parks
• Strange alpine plant growing in Patagonia.
• Think twice before cutting trees back
• Tower Hamlets clear nature reserve, an area of scientific interest.
• Trees at Highbury Corner - help save them
• Trees felled as Tower Hamlets declare climate emergency.
• Trees help cities thrive
• Tree manefesto
• Urban farmers call for Town Hall support for local food growing
• Urban Tree Festival 2021
• Weavers Fields - report from meeting
• Weed Tea
• We should plant more trees
• What’s killing the bees?
• Wilting Tomato Plants