Garden News

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• NEW - Shame on Tower Hamlets
• NEW - Helping the local environment
• NEW - We should plant more trees
• 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.
• Beware of mystery seeds from China
• Canning tomatoes
• 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.
• Heritage Seeds
• Hidden greenhouse garden
• Hidden universe beneath our feet
• Importance of Herbs
• 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
• Pesticide-free Tower Hamlets
• Polyculture - allow weeds to exist
• Protected tree list for London
• Protection for rivers and lakes at risk
• Rebel botanists use graffiti to name forgotten flora.
• Rodenticide in public parks
• Strange alpine plant growing in Patagonia.
• 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 2020
• Weavers Fields - report from meeting
• What’s killing the bees?