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…
Celebrate Bees at the Big Buzz party, May 24
We’ll be holding our annual Big Buzz event celebrating World Bee Day on May 24 – that’s this coming Saturday. The party begins at 12 noon and ends at 4pm. What to expect The big attraction is a kid’s magic show at 2:30pm, with Nutty Magic Ravioli. His shows are great fun and very lively from…
Free ‘Grow Veg’ workshops for kids
In homage to the life’s work of the community garden’s inspiration, local resident and teacher, Yvonne Conolly OBE, the Friends of Wray Crescent is proud to announce the Children’s ‘Grow Veg’ Workshop, a series of summer educational workshops for young people aged six to twelve years of age, starting May 10. What the workshops will teach The…
An Important (Little) Success for the Park
You may have completely missed it as you walk through the park, but a small and significant success is taking place in Wray Crescent Park… We have a Snakes-head Fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris)! It’s a success because this small, fragile, yet beautiful little plant is classified as ‘Vulnerable’ on the Vascular Plant Red Data List for the…
See what Tollington looked like in the 60’s & 70’s
Islington North may seem quite lovely today, but it wasn’t so long ago that it was a different place. Heavily bombed during World War 2, it wasn’t until the late Sixties that any real investment began going into the neighbourhoods after the destruction of war. Below you’ll find an archive of images of Islington in…
Join us for the final Orchard Project session (and celebration)
Join the Friends of Wray Crescent and the Orchard Project on March 22 for the last of event of the series. Hot food will be provided during the day to celebrate the end of the project, and the event should be fun for gardeners, tree-lovers, and nature-minded kids. What’s happening? Last year, the group teamed up with…
October 19: Help rebuild the path
The seasons have changed once again, which means the rains are coming to Wray Crescent, which means a big chunk of park turns into a muddy swamp. That means it is time to rebuild the temporary path through the park. We need your help to do it! October 19: Help rebuild the path So many…
Orchard advice to download right here
Thanks to the Orchard Project we now have three short guides to share with anyone who wants to take better care of their fruit trees. The guides explain good practise when pruning young trees, what to think about when planting new trees (and what to do to help them settle in), with a useful seasonal…
Join us for the third session with the Orchard Project
We have teamed up with LBI and the Orchard Project to improve the orchard area in our park. Please join us for our third session in the series, which takes place between noon and 2pm on Saturday September 28. We have more sessions to come after that. What we have learned already During the first session…