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RHS Grass Roots Grass Roots The RHS Community Update Issue 26 • Summer 2016 rhs.org.uk/communities Greening Grey Britain: 40 community projects get underway Crocus planting time for Bloom groups with Rotary Wild About Gardens Week: Campaign for School Gardening: Plant a banquet for bats! Rocket Science lifts off! 2 Welcome News 3 Greening Grey Britain for Health & Happiness: from Chelsea 2016… he Greening Grey Britain for Health, 2 Welcome Happiness and Horticulture garden RHS / Jerry Harpur at the Chelsea Flower Show 2016 T RHS / Tim Sandall 3/4 News championed the health and well-being Welcome… benefits of greening up our grey spaces and 5 RHS/Rotary Crocus showed how uplifting and beautiful front Planting Partnership gardens can be. …to the Summer 2016 issue of Grass Roots, the magazine for all community gardening With bright borders, benches on which to groups including Bloom and It’s Your Neighbourhood groups and RHS Affiliated Societies. relax and chat, a soothing water feature, The RHS Greening Grey Britain Garden for Health, Happiness and Horticulture 6/7 Greening Grey Britain for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2016 a bee-friendly wildflower meadow, edible Health & Happiness I’m delighted to introduce myself as the new and looking forward to Wild About Gardens plants in pots and a stylish kitchen garden, Editor and say how inspired I’ve been by the Week with suggestions on how to plant up it contained many ideas that can be …to Angell Town 8/9 RHS Science & Advice fantastic stories of the ways in which groups a bat-friendly garden and enter our photo incorporated into private and community This spring, the RHS Community Outreach are using gardening to brighten communities competition. gardens, helping the nation to become team enjoyed working with a local 10/11 Wild About Gardens and improve lives around the country. We’re always looking for community healthier and happier. gardening group in Angell Town, Brixton, The Greening Grey Britain for Health and gardening stories to share in Grass Roots so Designed by award-winning Ann-Marie to run horticultural activities for residents, 12 RHS Campaign for School Happiness theme continues in this issue please do keep in touch with your news by Powell – and now relocated to Angell Town, engaging local families and enabling them RHS / Luke MacGregor RHS / Luke Gardening with a ‘crocus focus’ and a call to action for emailing [email protected]. I very Brixton – it was situated adjacent to the RHS to take plants into their homes. Gardening all RHS community groups to get involved much look forward to hearing from you! Hub where visitors were encouraged to make has contributed significantly to bringing 13 RHS Affiliated Societies in the RHS/Rotary partnership to plant 5 Best wishes and happy gardening – their pledge to Green Grey Britain one plant the community together and a number of million purple crocuses in community spaces at a time. You can get involved now: promise the residents were involved in building the 14 Britain in Bloom: across the country; see page 5. We’re also to plant at rhs.org.uk/science/gardening- Greening Grey Britain for Health, Happiness taking a look at some of the 40 inspiring in-a-changing-world/greening-grey-britain & Horticulture garden at Chelsea, which was Young Angell Town residents sow seeds with RHS Volunteering in Schools RHS-supported Greening Grey Britain and make a difference! relocated to the estate after the show. Community Outreach Advisor Chris Young 15 My Bloom projects as they get underway (pages 6-7) Fiona Brown, Editor New Britain in Bloom Bloom judge awarded MBE Your Letters Community planting in Bristol Congratulations UK Finals Judges to Bill Blackledge, We wanted to tell Grass Roots readers about the willows that we have used to add a Five new Britain in Bloom UK Finals Retired Horticultural splash of colour and transform an area of Redcatch Park in Bristol. judges, appointed in late 2015/early Superintendent, Lancaster Simpson Ian With funding from our Neighbourhood Partnership and our own funds, we recently 2016, will be out and about on their University, gardening Cover image: Planting in Gyllyngdune Gardens, planted pulmonaria to create a colourful border to our Jubilee Hedge of native first Bloom judging tour this August. broadcaster (Radio Falmouth, for Falmouth Dementia Friends hedgerow plants from the Woodland Trust. Local school children and disability group With a wealth of experience and Lancashire) and for many Image credit: RHS/Guy Harrop Silva, along with a good turnout of local residents, families and Friends of Redcatch horticultural achievement to their years Britain in Bloom regional judge, who Park enabled us to complete the border in 2 hours, and it proved to be a good social credit, we look forward to seeing has been awarded an MBE in HM The This magazine is printed on paper using occasion as well. them in various locations around the Clockwise from top left: Bill Ronald, Geraldine King, Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to 100 percent recycled fibre. Please pass it on This activity was twinned with the planting of 150 willows of all colours and country later in the summer. James Cordingley, Richard Budge, Keith Jackson North West in Bloom, of which he is Chair. or recycle it. varieties which were donated by a local resident who had closed a willow business. Together we planted a Willow Copse in a boggy area that will now provide a rainbow of colours and allow us to harvest willows for weaving. Willows have also been added Would YOU like to support community groups UK-wide? New RHS team members Grass Roots is published by to shrubberies and borders, including many Volunteer as a RHS Britain in Bloom UK Finals Judge Brid O’Dwyer recently RHS Community Horticulture with catkins to attract the bees. joined the central team 80 Vincent Square, London SW1P 2PE We hope in future to hold willow weaving RHS Britain in Bloom is a nationwide enjoy working outdoors and be reasonably as Community Outreach Tel 020 7821 3122 Email [email protected] events and to be able to donate the willow to community gardening campaign that has physically fit. Good knowledge of plants, Manager covering the South ©2016 The Royal Horticultural Society local crafts people. been helping communities improve their horticultural practice and/or environmental and East of England. She local environment since 1964 and now issues and experience working in and/ is enjoying meeting many Registered Charity Susan Davies no: 222879 / SC038262 Susan Davies has exciting volunteering opportunities or supporting volunteer-led community of those delivering community gardening Chair, Friends of Redcatch Park Bristol for horticultural enthusiasts to become projects are essential. Training and support projects as she gets to know the region. The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s Britain in Bloom UK Finals judges. More will be provided throughout the year. leading gardening charity, dedicated to than 1,600 cities, towns, villages and The UK finals judging team visit Britain in Fiona Brown joined the advancing horticulture and promoting gardening. Please send your letters to [email protected] or RHS Community Horticulture, urban communities take part each Bloom finalists all around the UK, with an central team in April as Our community campaigns support more year to showcase their achievements in annual commitment of up to two weeks in Senior Communications than 5,000 groups in creating greener and RHS, 80 Vincent Square, London SW1P 2PE. Letters on all community gardening topics more interconnected communities. For more are welcomed, but may be edited for publication. environmental responsibility, August and approximately four meetings. Co-ordinator. She is the new information about RHS Britain in Bloom, RHS community participation and, of For further information and to view the Editor of this magazine and It’s Your Neighbourhood and RHS Affiliated course, horticultural achievement. role description, please visit rhs.org.uk/ looks forward to sharing Societies, please visit rhs.org.uk/communities Correction: Britain in Bloom Finalists, Issue 25, Spring 2016, p6: St Saviour was incorrectly Applicants should have a passion for about-the-rhs/work-for-the-rhs/vacancies your inspiring community projects and listed as a ‘Small Town’ when it should have been listed in the ‘Town’ category horticulture and community gardening, or email [email protected] achievements with readers of Grass Roots. Grass Roots • Summer 2016 rhs.org.uk/communities 4 News 5 RHS/Luke MacGregor RHS/Luke improved, adding “I am delighted to stand in support of the RHS Greening Grey Britain campaign.” The RHS Greening Grey Britain campaign Planting crocuses for aims to harness the power of the public to turn 6,000 grey areas green by the end health and wellbeing – Wesley RHS/Wendy of 2017 and at the end of the conference attendees were asked to ‘pledge’ a Greening Grey Britain activity. The Front Garden time to get involved! Summit panel, which included a number of esteemed horticulturists, recommended that Crocus tommasinianus ‘Barr’s Purple’ Greening Grey Britain: if individuals did only one thing to contribute towards mitigating the issue they should ou will have seen in the Spring will be funded – for example by Rotary, by each plant a tree. issue of Grass Roots that, as part Rotary and Bloom jointly or by finding third Chelsea Front Yof Greening Grey Britain for Health party sponsors – and together organising who and Happiness, the RHS is partnering with will participate in the planting, including how Celebrity gardener and RHS Vice Rotary International in support of their local communities can get involved. There Garden Summit President Alan Titchmarsh chairs the ‘Purple4Polio’ campaign to end polio by may also be opportunities for RHS Bloom/IYN panel at the RHS Front Garden Summit New RHS Front Garden Guide planting 5 million Crocus tommasinianus groups and Affiliated Societies to purchase across the UK – and it’s time to get involved! additional corms at £85 per 5,000 to enhance As part of Greening Grey Britain, the the displays.
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