Its early days yet, but already the apples in the orchard are turning red! And we have cob nuts!
Fruits (and vegetables) in the orchard.
Perivale Park orchard garden, June 2019 – June 2021 in pictures.
The orchard garden is now two years old and to celebrate, we have collected some of the best photos taken there into a Powerpoint slide show.
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Diversity in the Park orchard: A newsletter.
First, a bit of history. For many years, a bowling green was maintained in the park, just adjacent to the Cowgate road entrance. From personal memory, about 20 years ago there were regular Sunday bowls matches but one day some youngsters decided to play a game of football on the green. The cost of bringing the grass back up to playing quality was probably the final straw, since the bowling club left and went elsewhere for their matches. It lay fallow for years, until the dredging spoil from work on the nearby Coston’s brook was taken there around five years ago and some landscaping was done, as well as providing a small concrete seat in the middle.
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Sprucing up the orchard for inspection!
We had a wonderful turnout today for the orchard gardening. Here are some of the helpers (not all present at the same time)
Saturday June 12th, 2021, 11.00. Another community gardening event in Perivale Park.
This is what we hope to achieve with your help on Saturday June 12th, 2021 at 11.00 for about two hours.
The Beauty of … dandelions?
Is it that dandelions are having a good year? Or that our senses are heightened? Whatever the reason, I cannot help but show photographs of them here, since they certainly gave pleasure. These were all taken in the orchard garden in the park.
Snow and broad beans.
Yesterday’s snow has nicely highlighted something stirring in the raised beds, found in the orchard garden.
Harvest festival – summer style with tomatoes, pumpkins, butternut squash and courgettes.
The raised beds in the orchard garden, a “pocket park” within Perivale Park, are yielding more and more harvest. Here is a selection.
The orchard garden in July.
Even slightly “formal” gardens or planted beds in parks nowadays are not as common as they used to be; the cost of maintenance (= a lot of weeding) has reduced their number. More likely now are wild flower mixes along borders and meadows. Perivale park however does have one such planted area, in which four square meadows‡ mingle with borders surrounding seating and crab-apple trees adjacent to an orchard area that also has four community raised beds. A sort of informal allotment and garden rolled into one. Here are some photos of the flower meadows and raised beds as of mid-July. The maintenance by the way is done by a combination of Ealing Parks and volunteer weeders and waterers.
Raised bed plantings in the orchard garden
The raised beds are located in the midst of the 24 orchard fruit trees. The first harvest they have produced has just been gathered (winter garlic). There are still some left to harvest if you want to help yourself!
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