Category Archives: Wildlife Area

Can you help with the new Bug Hotel?

April 13, 2015Wildlife Areagardens

The gardening team are starting to make a Bug Hotel in the Wildlife Area.

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Do you have any unwanted bamboo canes or broken terracotta pots?

Colour in the Park

April 13, 2015Wildlife Areagardens

The park is changing every week. A quick walk around the park with a camera can reveal so many new colours.

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Queen’s Park Spring Clean

April 11, 2015Wildlife Areagardens

Queen’s Park Spring Clean

A day of local activity relating to rubbish, recycling, dog poo matters and also responsible dog ownership.

Friends of Queen’s Park Gardens and community councillors will be taking to the streets along with local residents, volunteers and street sweepers from Veolia for our very first Keep Queen’s Park Tidy day! The aim is to clean up, and encourage people to do more to keep our neighbourhood tidy and litter-free in future. Please join us, even if only for a short while at any point in the day. All ages including kids are welcome. We’re really keen to get as many people involved as possible.

The day looks like this:

10am Meet outside Beethoven Centre on Third Avenue. 10am– 1pm Street litter pick and clear-up, including Queen’s Park Gardens, with all equipment including t-shirts supplied by Veolia

1.00pm Lunch provided for all volunteers, Veolia and Westminster council staff at St Judes Hall, Ilbert Street

2pm to 3pm Mozart Estate.

We will also have a special team out talking to dog owners about cleaning up after their pets. We know dog fouling and dogs off leads is a major concern of local residents.

Please email esweeney@nullqueensparkcommunitycouncil.gov.uk for more information, or call the community council office 0208 964 8024 (or try 07831 687 602 on the day).

Solar Eclipse

March 19, 2015Wildlife Areagardens

Are you going to look at the partial solar eclipse in Queen’s Park Gardens or nearby?

The weather could be better than anticipated but DO TAKE CARE.

There are several ways to enjoy this event safely but

DON’T look directly at the sun
DON’T use a normal camera without a filter
DON’T use ordinary sunglasses

as this would result in very serious damage to eyes, young and old. Please don’t take any chances.

It’s all happening between 8:25am and 10:40am with the maximum point coming around 9:30am. The telly and papers have suggestions for ways of enjoying the eclipse. Check out what Radio Times says here and more ideas here. Want to make a pinhole camera, that will project the tiny crescent onto paper for you and your friends? It’s great fun and you can learn how to make one here.

This kind of event may only happen a couple more times in your lifetime so enjoy yourself and if you take a photo of your pinhole camera, or your best friend wearing the special, safety glasses, why not let us know on Facebook? Do not take direct pictures of the eclipse unless you have the specialist equipment needed.

The weather for Kensal Green

Wildlife Area Session 14th March 2015

March 14, 2015Wildlife Areafqpg_admin

The Friends of Queen’s Park Gardens are back in the Wildflower garden. The whole area looks great, very few weeds to speak of

We noticed a Blue Tit inspecting one of the bird boxes in the gardens, he was then seen flying to inspect another box a few meters away.

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Tree Decoration

March 10, 2015Wildlife Areafqpg_admin

Thanks to efforts of our regular visiting childminding group. The Hazel tree has been decorated with bright red blossom tissue paper, the Wildlife garden looks even more colourful. Well done guys!!

The End of Winter

February 26, 2015Queen's Park Gardens, Wildlife Areagardens

This winter has been relatively mild and many plants are showing signs of welcoming Spring. It’s not long before our first gardening session of the year on 14th March.

The Friends of Queens Park Gardens braved the dog mess to take a few photos of the changing shrubs.

Snowdrops by the Third Avenue gate

Hellebores in the Wildlife Area

The oval bed in the Rose Garden

Bulbs in the Rose Garden

The triangular bed by the Outdoor Gym (great to see so many people using it)

Nothing happening with the trees yet but they’re still beautiful

Time Credit Spend

February 22, 2015Wildlife Areafqpg_admin

Have you voted yet?

If you could spend your Time Credits at a special event which film would you choose to see?

There’s a new Time Credits brochure to download here from Just Add Spice.

Snow in the Park

February 3, 2015Open Spaces, Queen's Park Gardens, Wildlife Areagardens

Snow doesn’t always come to London. When it does, it rarely settles but this morning we woke to find a inch of white carpet so we took some pictures before it melted.