Hackney Wick Garden: Mabley Green Meadow is So Beautiful!!

Sunday 18 April 2010

Mabley Green Meadow is So Beautiful!!

A great day out was had by all yesterday - at Hackney Wick newest garden.

Thank you to Chris King for organising such a successful launch. And of course - thanks to everyone who turned up to help, weed, dig, clear, barrow - & plant the soon-to-be stunning wildflower meadow.

There is still quite a lot to do - so if anyone wants to still help out - please call Chris @ 07747 437 236. So whether its gardening, weeding, planting, donating - or even just caring - please get involved with your new local garden.

It's there for all of us to enjoy!

1 comments:

BettyBoo said...: Hi I saw you guys working hard on Saturday. Well done! I'm sure its going to look beaut when they start flowering. I'll keep checking this blog to see if I can help out next time. Thanks again.
BettyBoo; 20 April, 2010 02:10

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Whats this all about then?

What makes us happy?

A smile from a stranger?
Dipping your toe in the sea?
A bird landing nearby…… and staying?
A nice cuppa?

Probably all these things at the same time!!

But it has been proven by some very smart people – that plants, grass, flowers, lawns, fruit trees, bushes, vegetable plants, creepers - hey – even weeds – make all of us very happy!!

We all need more natural colours, smells, & greenery all around us here in Hackney Wick.

Hackney Council do a lot of planting & gardening – but we all rather want our council tax to be spent on cleaning up dog doo & filling potholes in cycle lanes!!

So……… what some of us have started doing is planting flowers, tomatoes, dandelions, cherry trees, runner beans, willows, blackberry bushes, ivy, fig trees, wild flower meadows, anything – all over Hackney Wick.

It is the easiest thing to do yourself:

- Next time you have a salad – separate, save & grow some tomato seeds.

- Get a bag of cherries from the market – enjoy – save the pips & throw them over the fence of some derelict waste ground.

- Get some packets of wildflower or meadow seeds from the 1 pound shop or Lidl (anywhere cheap) – make some seed bombs & throw them into any patch of unplanted Hackney Wick.

- If you’re feeling flush one week – pop down to the nursery along the canal (or even B&Q next to Hackney Marshes) & buy a tree for a fiver – get it planted as close to the sidewalk as possible – to shelter & shade the rest of us in a couple of years.

- If you have a bit more gardening knowledge than the rest of us – take some cuttings, saplings, & prunings from your (or nice neighbour’s) garden – cultivate them & plant them somewhere else in Hackney Wick.

- Maybe – pop down to Columbia Road Market on a Sunday morning – and get loads of ivy very cheaply & plant them below unattractive fences & walls – so that we can see greenery – not unintelligible graffiti & rusted metal.

Wouldn’t it be great to make Hackney Wick the most green, beautiful, colourful, delicious (free fruit, beans, tomatoes, herbs, berries, etc) & natural place to live in any city?!

Everyone’s favourite gardening luvvie – Alan Titsmarsh – says that there are no such things as weeds – only plants in unexpected places.

Lets all start planting loads more weeds in Hackney Wick!!!

Hackney Wick Garden

Sunday 18 April 2010

Mabley Green Meadow is So Beautiful!!

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