Category Archives: Queen’s Park Gardens

Summer Festival on Twitter

Environment, Festival, Learning, Local Community, Open Spaces, Queen's Park Gardens, Well Being, Wildlife Area

The Summer Festival was a sunny celebration of our neighbourhood this year.

Queen’s Park Summer Festival 2022

Community Gardening, Environment, Festival, Local Community, Open Spaces, Queen's Park Gardens, Well Being

Queen’s Park Summer Festival returns for the 18th year!
Summer has arrived and so has the Queen’s Park Summer Festival! This year’s festival is jam packed with live music and entertainment, family sports and games, delicious food, activities, entertainment for over 50s and so much more.

Definitely an event not to be missed.  We will be gardening for a couple of hours beforehand.

Keep an eye on the QPCC Website, Facebook, Instagram  or Twitter for updates.
Sat 6th August 2022 – 12pm to 6pm –Queen’s Park Gardens – Ilbert Street –  W10 4QJ

11:00: Dog Show and Wildlife Show
12:00 – 18:00: Stalls, Live entertainment and more! 

Join us for the August Community Clean Up on Sunday 7th August from 11am to 1pm (assembling in the park).

Your Park! Your Neighbourhood! Your Community! Get Involved!

Beginners Gardening Course

Community Gardening, Environment, Learning, Local Community, Open Spaces, Queen's Park Gardens, Rose Garden, Well Being

WAES and HCGA are holding a free, month long gardening course for beginners, covering a different topic each week.

Thursday 28th April 2022 at Queen’s Park Gardens 1:30pm to 3pm: Seed Sowing – How, When & Where.
Thursday 5th May 2022 at Queen’s Park Gardens 1:30pm to 3pm: Knowing your weeds, looking at common annual & perennial weeds (plant ID), different weeding techniques for each, use of edible and medicinal weeds.
Thursday 12th May 2022 at Queen’s Park Gardens 1:30pm to 3pm: Sustainable Gardening, composting (garden/leaf), making comfrey/nettle feed, growing for pollinators, using peat-free potting compost- what is it & why it’s essential.
Thursday 19th May 2022 at Queen’s Park Gardens 1:30pm to 3pm: Plant your Own Hanging basket.
Thursday 26th May 2022 – 10am to 2pm: Visit to Kew Gardens.

This gardening course is free, all you need to do is…

*Complete an enrolment form
*Show your ID at enrolment
*Be a resident of Westminster borough
*Attend every week

FOR INFO AND BOOKINGS please email: bookings@nullhcga.org.uk

Spring Colour

Community Gardening, Environment, Home, Queen's Park Gardens, Well Being

It is lovely to see people enjoying our park.

We have begun our new schedule of regular, weekly Wildlife Area sessions on Saturdays.

Our next session is organised for Saturday, 19th March 2022, starting at 10 am and running through the morning until 1 pm.  You are welcome to join us at any time within those hours, for as little or long as you like.

We meet in the Wildlife Area of Queen’s Park Gardens with all equipment provided – just wear sensible clothing and bring plenty of enthusiasm. You can turn up for as long or as short a time as you want. We will be working in the open air with social distancing and as always, weather permitting!

Our schedule of sessions for the rest of March, are as follows:

Saturday 26th March 2022

We look forward to seeing you soon.

If you would like to join our mailing list, please drop us a line via the Contact Form.

Covid-19: You can find the details of our sessionshere. We will be working in the open air with social distancing and as always, weather permitting!
Ulla is running her Thursday morning sessions. More details here.
If you use the Wildlife Area, please respect those who are seeking a quiet area, free from joggers and dogs.

5th March 22 session

Environment, Local Community, Open Spaces, Queen's Park Gardens, Well Being, Wildlife Area

The weather was kind to us on Saturday.

Ray tidied the brambles before joining the rest of the team to turn the compost heap.

Our next session is organised for Saturday, 12th March 2022, starting at 10 am and running through the morning until 1 pm. You are welcome to join us at any time within those hours, for as little or long as you like.

We meet in the Wildlife Area of Queen’s Park Gardens with all equipment provided – just wear sensible clothing and bring plenty of enthusiasm. You can turn up for as long or as short a time as you want. We will be working in the open air with social distancing and as always, weather permitting!

Following on from this Saturday, our schedule of sessions for the rest of March, are as follows:

Saturday 12th March 2022
Saturday 19th March 2022
Saturday 26th March 2022

We look forward to seeing you soon.

If you would like to join our mailing list, please drop us a line via the Contact Form.

Friends’ Gardening Sessions Resumed

Community Gardening, Environment, Learning, Local Community, Open Spaces, Queen's Park Gardens, Triangular Bed, Well Being, Wildlife Area

 

We are happy to announce we are back in our boots! 

We begin our new schedule of regular, weekly Wildlife Area sessions this Saturday.

Our first session is organised for Saturday, 26th February 2022, starting at 10 am and running through the morning until 1 pm.  You are welcome to join us at any time within those hours, for as little or long as you like.

We meet in the Wildlife Area of Queen’s Park Gardens with all equipment provided – just wear sensible clothing and bring plenty of enthusiasm. You can turn up for as long or as short a time as you want. We will be working in the open air with social distancing and as always, weather permitting!

Following on from this Saturday, our schedule of sessions for March, are as follows:

Saturday 5th March 2022
Saturday 12th March 2022
Saturday 19th March 2022
Saturday 26th March 2022

We look forward to seeing you soon.

If you would like to join our mailing list, please drop us a line via the Contact Form.

Dog Run Re-turfing

Community Gardening, Environment, Local Community, Open Spaces, Queen's Park Gardens, Wildlife Area


The eastern end of the dog run has been re-turfed and will be closed until it has rooted. Please access the other end of the run from the mid-Ilbert Street gate.  Dogs must be kept on their leads in all other areas of the park. Thank you.


Our wonderful team of ad-hoc volunteers have spread wood chip around the muddier access points of the Wildlife Area.  We’d like to thank Ulla and HCGA who sourced this for us.

Finally, we would like to thank everyone who attended our virtual AGM. The annual report will be available soon, and summarised in the year review.

 

 

Christmas Tree Recycling

Environment, Local Community, Open Spaces, Queen's Park Gardens

Once again, our park is one of the four local sites for real tree recycling. Please remove ALL decorations. Try to keep the area tidy and fit for its intended purpose. Trees can be recycled from 28th December 21 until the end of day 11 January 2022. (To find your nearest site visit: https://www.westminster.gov.uk/xmas-recycling)

There are no planned changes to collection days for recycling and rubbish collections over Christmas and New Year. Your collection day(s) will remain as normal.

You can check your collection days and times here.

For the latest info: https://www.westminster.gov.uk/xmas-recycling