Park Life is in Full Swing

Wildlife Area

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Glorious sunshine aided our gardening session over the weekend and we had a great turnout. Thank you to everyone for your time and generosity.

So many late spring chores to do but we also sewed wildflower seeds, kindly donated by Grow Wild UK, in the meadow, including:

bladder campion, common knapweed, corn marigold, cowslip, foxglove, great mullein, lady’s bedstraw, musk mallow, red campion and

corn chamomile, salad barnet, wild basil, wild carrot, wild marjoram and

betony, corncockle, garlic mustard, hedge bedstraw, nettle-leaved bellflower, perforate St John’s Wort, ragged robin,  selfheal, upright hedge-parsley and

bird’s foot trefoil, common knapweed, crested dog’s tail, oxeye daisy, quaking grass and yarrow!

We had volunteers of all kinds helping to make this a beautiful, tranquil area of the park.

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Discovering Our Green City

Environment, Local Community, Open Spaces

Westminster Adult Education Authority have joined forces with our friends the HCGA to introduce Westminster residents to our green city.

Each week, from May to early July, residents will visit various locations around the city and some of those visits will include hands-on, practical gardening.  The visits are free but transport to and from is not so bring your Travelcard.

Donations are always welcome!

Please check the “How to Garden” course here.

For more information, please email bookings@nullhcga.org.uk or call 07 773 334 294

How to Garden Course

Local Community

Our friends at the HCGA have organised a free gardening course for you to enjoy with the help of Westminster Adult Education Authority.
You need to be a Westminster Resident and available on the dates listed.
For more information about this wonderful opportunity, please email:
Bookings@nullhcga.org.uk

Please check the other “Discovering Our Green City” course here.

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Have a voice in your Community

Local Community

Don’t forget that QPCC elections are quickly approaching, and residents are coming forward to stand for the role of Community Councillor on 3 May.

Don’t worry, there’s still time to apply if you haven’t already. This is a great opportunity to represent your community and get a voice and a vote on what QPCC does for the next four years, including on how it spends its money. The next four years hold enormous promise, don’t miss out!

Queen’s Park Community Council has a Community Development Officer Lindsey Brown and a Chief Officer Kevin Harris, to get in touch with Lindsey or Kevin please email lindsey@nullqueensparkcommunitycouncil.gov.uk / chiefofficer@nullqueensparkcommunitycouncil.gov.uk 

Tel: 020 8960 5644

You have until 6th April to apply to become a Community Councillor.

A Wonderful Saturday

Local Community, Queen's Park Gardens

We started the day with a lovely turnout of volunteers, whom we thank very much. Charlotte kindly donated more snowdrops which we’ve planted in hopes that they’ll be the first sign of next winter’s end.

Thanks must also go to Steve Mills of Continental Landscapes for arranging the loan of our very own Mr Rotavator’s favourite gardening tool.

Later on in the day, we joined the Queen’s Park Community Day in The New Avenues for an afternoon of fun and information.  Don’t forget how important it is to vote this May.

SNOW!

Open Spaces, Queen's Park Gardens, Wildlife Area

We realise the snow can make life difficult for some of our neighbours and testing for the birds but the park does look rather wonderful.

Please check on your neighbours to make sure they are warm and safe, and have enough food.

If all is well, take a look at these lovely photographs which Ray took earlier today.

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