Announcing the fifth Big Buzz
Hello everyone, We just wanted to announce the next Big Buzz event for the bees takes place on May 23, from 12-4. Expect an entertainer, stalls, wonderful vegan food, face painting, pot a plant to take home with you and more. Final details will be announced closer to the time. We need plenty of help…
Learn how to do topiary on March 8
We wanted to let everyone know about our next special gardening workshop in Wray Crescent Park, which takes place on March 8 from 12, noon and is focused on topiary
Winter Workshop: Fruit Tree Care at Wray Crescent, Feb 28, noon
You will learn about how and when to prune the different trees, and help give them a nice bit of mulching to help them flourish this summer.
Community Bulb Planting Day in Wray Crescent Park
Working with Islington’s parks team we’ve arranged to host a bulb-planting day in Wray Crescent Park when we hope to plant hundreds of bulbs to set the park ablaze with colour next spring. We’re inviting the whole neighbourhood to come and join us in planting bulbs in the park from midday on Saturday, November 1.…
Creating a Bee-Friendly Space in Wray Crescent
We are improving part of the planting in Wray Crescent to boost biodiversity.
Join the Orchard Project Tree Care Workshop – August 18, 4pm
UPDATE: Date is now August 18 Please join us for a hastily rearranged and last minute fruit tree pruning session with the Orchard Project, who will visit the park to take a look at our trees, tell us how they are doing, and run an interesting session on orchard care and pruning. Their visit is…
Thank you from Wray Crescent Festival
Thank you We wanted to thank you all for coming to the third Wray Crescent Festival. We hope you had a nice time and look forward to returning again on July 25 next year. We also wanted to thank everyone who made the event possible, which would never have happened without the help of dozens…
Wray Crescent Festival: A Family Day of Fun
Saturday, July 26, 12-5pm in Wray Crescent park. Volunteers from the Friends of Wray Crescent working with Islington’s park team are proud to announce the third ever Love Our Park Wray Crescent Festival, a fabulous family day out with plenty to see and do. We have vast quantities of music, entertainment, and stalls to look…
Thanks for coming along to the bee festival
Hi everyone, we wanted to take a moment to thank everyone involved in the Big Buzz event. We hope you had a nice time, and if you have ideas for what you could do to make the show even better next year, please let us know what you’d like to do and we can begin…
How this innovative company is helping your local parks (and how you can help)
With our small bee-focused special event in Wray Crescent coming up tomorrow, we wanted to talk about another essential element to the growing cycle. If you’ve visited any of the local parks then the plants and flowers you see growing there owe a big debt, not just to local volunteers who are keeping these spaces…