Garden News & Stories

April's gardening group saw us working along side a very glamorous group of models and lots of professional photographers. It made the bindweed digging out much more bearable! The Walled Garden was an ideal location for them to show their talents - all building their portfolios. We were delighted to welcome them all to the garden - who knows we may get featured somewhere! The fragrant laburnum was also uncovered from its overpowering by the clematis, pus lots of tidying up w

Pruning of roses was the key task in March. George, our retired head gardener, was able to give us clear guidance on the pruning of roses. It's surprising how much needs to be cut back, looking for outward facing buds and giving space to the center of the rose bush. Plus we did weeding of the rose beds. The daffodils and hyacinths are coming out, the clematis is in full flower and the spring buds on the magnolia are starting to open. We had a very energetic and enthusiastic

Our brilliant volunteers made light work of planting over 200 bulbs at our November session. It was a beautiful day for gardening and the bulbs will be ready for the spring. We planted the bulbs mainly in the rose beds and on the beds at the entrance to the walled garden. We also replenished the lavenders in the center of the Walled Garden and tidied the plants. There is still plenty of garden colour from pinks to yellows, to orange, purple and white alongside sliver seed an

We're going to be busy on 1st November. We have masses of daffodil bulbs to plant ready for the spring. Plus we're replacing the woody lavenders and some sad hebes. The weather looks good and warm - bring your watering cans! George, the head gardener at Ravenscourt Park for over 40 years, is now one of our volunteers and is always on hand to give advice and answer questions.

We've had plenty of new volunteers over the last months - sometimes reaching groups of 15 or more and our newest volunteer aged just 2 years old ! We're always keen to welcome local residents who want to support our walled garden, meet new people, get some exercise through our digging and feel inspired by the impact of a few hours of working together to maintain a peaceful and beautiful oasis in west London.

Brilliant blue skies for our major box trimming exercise at the April volunteers session. The boxes have now been sprayed to hopefully...

We look forward to seeing our record numbers of volunteers again at our April gardening session on 5th April. The weather looks like...

In February we welcomed record numbers to the Walled Garden. With 20 or so people (with 4 brand new volunteers) we were able to tidy the...

We recently welcomed Louis - our youngest ever volunteer in the Walled Garden! He loved carrying the twigs to the barrow.

The rose beds are always a wonderful blaze of colour during the summer at the Walled Garden. We keep them well weeded and pruned so...

The last few months have seen us welcome new volunteers and our regular volunteers hard at work in the Walled Garden. We've been keeping...

Our former head gardener George was presented with a painting by numbers kit of the garden when he retired. George has now completed the...

We had nearly 20 volunteers for our June session - a fantastic turnout! This was hugely welcomed since we had a major battle on our hands...

In May we had sunny skies to help us along with the weeding of the fourth rose bed. It was in a terrible state and we needed to ensure...

It was a wet, wet, wet gathering in March. But we had a fair number of hardy gardening volunteers who all arrived ready to have a go at...

Depsite the dire forecast we had a very good turn out for the November session. Thank you to everyone who came - the power of our...

We welcomed a wonderfully big group of garden volunteers for our October gathering in the beautiful sunshine. A special welcome to our...

A small group of loyal volunteers turned up in the rain for our August session. We concentrated our efforts on pulling the bindweed off...

For the June and July gardening days we were busy with tackling the bindweed, weeding the rose beds and general tidying up. Good Gym were...

What a big help out to commemorate the May 2023 Coronation event! There were 27 of us: old friends and new as well as regulars and 11...