Abundance Newsletter, July 2023
Greening Chiswick We have been partnering with the Chiswick Flower Market (several of the team are involved in both CFM and Abundance) to create proposals to help green up the…
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The Fourth Plinth for W4 April 2023
The new W4th Plinth artwork is ‘The Ceiling in the Sky’ by Cristina Schek. With this artwork, The Ceiling in the Sky, we go back in time to that pure…
2022 round up of activities
New gardens In addition to the existing gardens which Abundance volunteers continue to maintain we were able to create several new gardens: Alison’s Wood, a woodland area in Acton Common,…
Beaconsfield Gardens
Busy planting session in a dilapidated green space. Now reborn by community initiative as Beaconsfield Gardens, off Acton Lane. Thanks to a very generous donation from a local resident we…
The Future of Chiswick Markets
The Chiswick Flower Market team are starting a conversation about the Future of Chiswick Markets and our High Road. We are inviting local residents to join the conversation with a…
Raised beds and compost heaps
The lovely team from Bowmer + Kirkland arrived at West London Welcome today to build a series of raised beds and compost heaps to make their garden usable and lovely…
Butterfly wall lucky dip
In late September 2021 nearly 3000 flowers and butterflies, painted by Chiswickians, were installed on the wall of the Police Station, as the police were sadly moving out. In the…
Harvard Hill park
Checked out the two redwoods I planted in Harvard Hill park a few years ago, when they were below waist high. This little park sits below the A4, just east…
New Abundance garden
Dropped off a trailer-load of globe thistles (Echinops ritro), yellow-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium striatum) and giant yellow scabious (Cephalaria gigantea) to start off the new gardens at the entrance to Oliver…
We’re on Gardeners World this Friday!
Update Watch BBCTV Gardeners’ World, Abundance London and ‘defiant acts of beauty’ Watch on iPlayer (around 38 mins in) A few weeks ago we were visited by gardening royalty when…
Chiswick puts its Stamp on the Jubilee
30 May – 11 June Chiswick’s schools have come together to create a royal High Road of outsize postage stamps showing the Queen’s iconic profile in celebration of the Platinum…
Art competition and exhibition
An invitation to all Chiswick Schools. Platinum Jubilee art competition and exhibition Summer of culture 2022 We are inviting all Chiswick Primary and Secondary Schools to participate in a community…