On a cold and drizzly Saturday afternoon a good crowd came by to join an old English celebration in the Orchard. Wassail means ‘good health’ and Wassailing is a way of wishing the fruit trees good health for an abundant harvest. Our ingredients for a family nature experience were a tour of the Orchard….. a…
Want to join an old English custom in the Greenway Orchard? We will be ‘wassailing’ (singing) to the apple/pear trees, to ‘help’ them bear ample amount of fruit to ensure a good harvest. Saturday 3 February 2-3.30, rain or shine, come along to the Orchard (next to Boundary Lane) Tour of the Orchard/history/tree identification/info Singing, processing and pot…
Join us for yet another plant–based craft activity planned for our next Gardening Club, taking place on Wednesday 10th January 11-12.30, sure to get the creative gardening juices going! We will be doing ‘Flower & Leaf Hammering’, which is a technique that leaves a natural print on a piece of paper or fabric, using flower and…
Local residents want a greener South Plaistow and for the green spaces to be used and enjoyed, beautiful and well maintained. We found this out in our listening events in 2015. We recruited our green spaces community workers Milena and Ros in August 2017. These are the highlights of what our green spaces workers have…
We are delighted that The Mix youth club (1A Cumberland Road, Plaistow) are working with famed street artist Pyklops street artist this weekend as a collaboration for the second mural in Barbers Alley. It’s a piece of work for the Newham Word Festival and Pyklops and the youth group have been working with wordsmith Charlie Dark. …
Come and enjoy a wintry workshop (in the warm!) working with beautiful, winter, evergreen, local foliage to make a seasonal wreath. We are keen to harvest Plaistow foliage and plants, so do bring along any greenery you have or can find (Holly, Firs, Buxus, Bay, Ivy) and any dried flowers that would look good. We…
We’re having fun planning for the PSBL large, plane tree – the one just outside the office. We want to make it bright and beautiful to launch tree dressing week in Plaistow. Got bright outworn clothes you could donate? Got a charity shop that would give us some colourful cloth that can’t be sold? We’re…
Barbers Alley has a bit of a chequered reputation. Running between Greengate Street and Balaam Street, just north of Plaistow Park, it’s a former road and so very wide for an alley, but also a place which has been fly-tipped and is often peppered with doggy-do! But now it looks like a community space with…
We are delighted to be joining in the Thames Water Great Greenway Clear-up! Friday 17th November, 10:30-12:30 Join the PSBL team at the Prince Regent Lane junction with The Greenway. All equipment provided… just don’t wear your best shoes! 😉 If you want our help in a litter pick in your Plaistow South road or a…
We thought we’d like to show our trees some love this December! Trees are everywhere in Plaistow and with a little bit of ‘tree dressing’ we may all notice them and appreciate them a bit more. National tree week is 25th November to 3rd December and Tree Dressing week is usually the first week in…