Grow Mayow Community Garden, Lewisham: Grow Mayow community garden & nursery

Grow Mayow community garden & nursery

Mayow Park Community growing Project

In partnership with Lewisham Council to support the launch of the Council's new community gardens guide.

January 2010

Before & after

Edible playground patchThis way all children have a chance to learn where food comes from.
How does it grow? How does it taste? What is the smell?
What lives in the soil?
What is pollination?
What is propagation?

Cottage garden
The cottage garden, complete with roses round the door, is often perceived as our national style.

In this patch we grow vegatable along side cutting flowers and small fruit bushes insect hotels and companion planting to attract beneficial insects.

The recycled gardenHow to reuse materials such as using old tyres as planters.

Woodland

Herb spiral

In this spiral you can find different varieties of herbs.

Herbs for Medicinal ,culinary, cosmetic and dye purposes.

Sensory patch
Smelly plants and sweet aromas
Touchy feely plants, spiky and soft
Balloon Flowers ( blue blossom) ,Ret Hot Pokers, Giant Sunflowers
Grasses, wildflowers, zinnias, purple carrots, Giant pumpkins,
Marigold, Chinese lantern, and Chocolate cosmos.

Wildflower border
Who said gardening wasn’t easy? Okay, maybe some parts aren’t that simple – grafting, propagation, weeding on cliffs, getting rid of slugs and innumerable other things but some aspects of gardens are unbelievably straightforward.
In this border we have sown a huge range of flowers species varying from sky blue cornflowers, to custard coloured daisies, candy pink campion, mallows, phacelia, corncockles and cosmos. It is a very simple way of filling a gap - maybe while you are waiting for either inspiration or time to do something more permanent.
The result will be a fantastic sight. There is another wave of flower to come as the summer continues.

A new entrance gate to the nursery yard

Allotment /Potager before and after

Trainee Suriya made a permaculture herb spiral

Before and after

The potager allotment show garden

Grow Mayow Community Garden: Grow Mayow community garden & nursery: Mayow Park Community growing Project In partnership with Lewisham Council to support the launch of the Council's new community gardens guid...