Get on your sea legs to enjoy an open afternoon at London’s only floating garden.
Check out the tree barges, local flora and fauna and the killer view of the Thames at the The Floating Gardens on Tower Bridge Moorings.
Also opening as part of the National Garden Scheme – proceeds for charity
You are invited on a collaborative walk with Thread and Word for the Chelsea Fringe 2019
We will be taking flags on a processional circular walk – see here from Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park, across Albert Bridge along the river and across Chelsea bridge, ending back at Pump House Gallery. This walk will take about one hour and 30 minutes and will be on flat terrain.
To prepare for this walk during March and April we will be making flags with the volunteers at The Work and Play Scrapstore based in Tooting. There will also be the opportunity to make flowers from rescued materials during the Scrapstore Hazelfest event on 19th May. Please contact the Scrapstore if you’d like to participate in the making!
This circular walk will offer the opportunity for participants to consider our relationship with the environment, through poetry readings from the ecopoetics archive and a meditative knotting of ropes.
Although this event is free numbers will be limited, tickets on eventbrite:
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I profumi e i colori dei fiori, delle foglie e della stessa terra; il calore del sole e che coabita con la frescura dell’acqua che scorre nei giardini del Marocco.
Tutto questo scorre tra le pagine del libro di Giuppi Pietromarchi – ‘Morocco in bloom’; in qualità di moglie dell’Ambasciatore italiano arriva in Marocco dal 1985, lui ha una grande passione per il giardinaggio ed i giardini – che ha ereditato da suo padre e suo nonno – ed ebbe l’opportunità di riorganizzare il giardino dell’ambasciata in quello che descrive come un “microclima miracoloso” in cui migliaia di piante provenienti da molti continenti coesistono, prosperano e forniscono fiori durante tutto l’anno.
L’autore ha visitato molti dei più bei giardini del Marocco e, grazie anche alle belle fotografie, ce li racconta trasmttendoci tutta la loro magia.
Verrà servito de thé alla menta durante l’incontro
Come and make your own pizzas in our small but perfectly formed wildlife garden next to the Regent’s canal with views across to Victoria Park.
Bring your favourite pizza toppings (we will supply the homemade pizza dough and tomato passata) to cook in our beautiful outdoor clay oven.
There is also a secret walkway along the canal bank for sitting and watching the water and the aquatic life and where you can eat your own homemade pizzas!
At 1pm the oven will reach its desired heat for pizza cooking – so be here just beforehand if you would like to make and eat some pizza!
Open Garden Squares Weekend, London’s most popular gardening-visiting event and the flagship event of London Parks and Gardens Trust, comes to Chelsea Fringe to celebrate gardens of every kind and shape in a far-reaching discussion exploring the value and purpose of gardens and planted spaces and the impact they make to our lives.
Panellists will discuss the value of all kinds of gardens – roofs, wildflower meadows, hospital and therapeutic gardens, allotments and produce gardens and historic and commemorative gardens. They will consider the collective impact of all these gardens as well as the individual joy to be found in each one.
On the panel:
Nigel Dunnett – Professor of Planting Design and Urban Horticulture in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield. Lead planting consultant London 2012 Olympic Park. Created the John Lewis Rain Garden, Beech Gardens on the Barbican Estate and The Diamond Garden to commemorate Queen Elizabeth’s 60th anniversary of her accession to the British throne.
Kathryn Rossiter – Chief Executive of Thrive, the nationwide charity which uses gardening to bring about positive changes in the lives of people with disabilities or ill-health, or who are isolated, disadvantaged or vulnerable.
Pilar Medrano Dell – horticultural consultant, formerly Head Gardener at Kensington Roof Gardens and now Horticulture Technical Manager for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission inspecting sites and giving support to garden managers and 850 staff based all over the world.
Claire Ratinon – urban organic growing advocate who currently works as a Patchwork Farmer growing salad for the Hackney-based social enterprise Growing Communities and as a Kitchen Gardener at Wolves Lane Centre in Haringey. Alongside these growing endeavours, Claire has delivered educational sessions and growing workshops throughout London to audiences including East London primary schools, community centres and for corporate clients.
The panel will be chaired by Ruth Holmes, Chair of London Parks and Gardens Trust and organisers of Open Garden Squares Weekend.
Coutts is hosting the event, and guests will have a chance to explore the bank’s Skyline Garden and hear about its creation from executive chef Peter Fiori.
To book tickets visit here.
A full list of the 2019 gardens for Open Garden Squares Weekend on 8-9 June can be viewed here.
Having a specific flora and fauna in a environment plays an important role in its identity. This talk by Professor Daniela Romano is about her research on how wild flowers are able to increase the biodiversity and even the identity of a place in anthropic ecosystems.
In this context the talk will take stock of the knowledge acquired so far in terms of: 1) biodiversity of the herbaceous species that make up the Mediterranean flora / vegetation; 2) seed production and germination process; 3) methods of employment in different anthropic contexts and adaptations of the cultivation technique to the pedo-climatic characteristics of the Mediterranean environment; 4) knowledge of the ethno-anthropological significance of some species. The latter is information that deserves to be collected and disseminated also to preserve the memory of the rural past and to stimulate interest and curiosity towards these plants, enhancing the cultural identity of a territory.
L’intervento della Prof.ssa Daniela Romano verterà sulla biodiversità delle specie erbacee che compongono la flora/vegetazione mediterranea, la produzione dei semi e processo di germinazione, le modalità di impiego in diversi contesti antropici e adattamenti della tecnica colturale alle caratteristiche pedo-climatiche dell’ambiente mediterraneo, la conoscenza dei significati etnoantropologici di alcune specie. Queste ultime sono informazioni che meritano di essere raccolte e diffuse anche per preservare la memoria del passato rurale e stimolare l’interesse e la curiosità nei confronti di queste piante, valorizzando l’identità culturale di un territorio.
