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Posted on November 19, 2022November 23, 2022

New Fingerposts and sign in the Park.

Ealing parks have just installed three new Fingerpost signs in the park and an information sign for  Longfield meadows.

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Posted on September 25, 2022September 25, 2022

The orchard garden – Geranium Rozanne.

The orchard garden was originally planted with four rectangular flower beds surrounding the avenue of Crab apple trees, with four larger almost square wild flower and spring bulb meadows (parched yellow below).  Last year those meadows put on a fantastic display of flax. Now, a year on all these areas have all evolved.

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Posted on August 3, 2022August 9, 2022

Unusual happenings (contd.): Spring has arrived (again) in the orchard.

A few days ago I noted that many of the fruit trees in the park orchard were putting out new leaf buds. Well, what happens next? New flower buds!

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Posted on July 28, 2022July 28, 2022

Unusual happenings in the orchard.

This year, the spring and summer has been very dry with little sustained rain. July is turning out to be one of the driest on record. No wonder the trees everywhere are suffering. The walnut tree planted as part of the Queen’s Jubilee is looking quite stressed for example.

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Posted on June 18, 2022

Perivale Park orchard after three years

Twenty four fruit trees were planted to create an orchard in 2019. Three years on they are now having their fourth summer – which promises to be a scorcher! I have taken photographs of all 24, shown below.

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Posted on May 11, 2022May 21, 2022

Orchard gardening event – 19th June, 2022 @ 10.00

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Well, its been a few months since the orchard garden was spruced by a team of gardeners and so we have organised a session on Sunday 19th June at 10.00 am. All welcome.

Refreshments will be provided and the tasks might include some or all of the below, but you are free to come along with your own ideas!

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Posted on March 25, 2022

A plum job: Fruitwatch

The University of Reading is running a FruitWatch project. Here is how they describe it:

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Posted on December 17, 2021December 17, 2021

Spring bulb planting in the park.

The  Bulbs for London project, together with  Richard Spencer-Smith, have come up trumps with two large boxes of spring bulbs delivered on Tuesday. At very short notice, I managed to persuade two members of the “Red Green” park group to come along and help us plant  some of them on the Wednesday.

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Posted on July 13, 2021

Fruits (and vegetables) in the orchard.

Its early days yet, but already the apples in the orchard are turning red! And we have cob nuts!

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