Planting a Sleeping Beauty Hedge: 18th, 19th, 31st March

Join us to re-plant the hedge along Burlington Lane (between Chiswick House and Chiswick School) with a gorgeous Sleeping Beauty hedge of wild roses, dog roses and evergreen bushes to create a spectacular and wildlife-friendly hedge. Monday 18th March 10am-3pm Tuesday 19th March 10am-2pm Sunday 31st March 12pm-4pm Email RSVP or for more information: karen@abundancelondon.com … Continue reading →

Planting the new perennial wildflower meadow bed

This new bed at Turnham Green Terrace, created on 21-22 February, forms part of the ‘piazza’ regeneration project that Abundance is carrying out with the Friends of Chiswick Back Common. More information here. 640 herbaceous perennials, 738 pots of bulbs that we prepared last November… Bed designed by Jutta Wagner (sitting on the lawn, below). … Continue reading →

Tree planting: 200 trees, 200 children!

Abundance ran a lovely tree planting session this week at Harvard Hill Park in Chiswick’s Grove Park.          We had all of Falcons school from reception (some as young as 3!), and all of year 3 from Grove Park School. Each child planted a sapling of the new shelter belt, including rowans, hawthorns, oak, yew, … Continue reading →

Picking with Hounslow council, Lampton FM360 and Social Services

This collaboration between Abundance London and the London Borough of Hounslow’s Housing Department, Lampton Facilities Maintenance 360, and the LBH Social Services Community Support (Adult Social Care) has taken huge effort to set up, but has finally come to fruition (pun intended!) because Andrea Tidy of Housing and Jon Godfrey who is responsible for Health … Continue reading →

Quince harvest

This year most of the apple harvest failed. The only really prolific crop was quinces. So we picked many kilos, took about 30kg to La Trompette, our local Michelin-starred restaurant in Chiswick, and cooked up a big batch of membrillo (quince cheese) with the rest.   Continue reading →

National Park City Fair – Abundance talk

J is for Jam and Juicing. Continue reading →

Queen Charlotte’s neo-natal unit rooftop garden

In late May we heard that the staff of the neo-natal unit at Queen Charlotte’s, had been clearing out the out the balconies all around the neonatal unit and creating garden spaces for the staff to enjoy. The Senior House Officers and Sorana Galu, one of the consultants, had done an amazing job. They had reclaimed … Continue reading →