Walthamstow Village in Bloom 2009 Portfolio

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Walthamstow Village in Bloom 2009

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Introduction 01

Walthamstow Village in Bloom boundary 02

Annual spring clean 03

Bulb planting 04

Monthly gardening club 05

Village square – Eden Road project 06

Crime prevention 08

Campaigns 09

Adoption of planters 10

Vestry Green flowerbed 11

Plant and seed swap 12

Front garden challenge 13

Beautiful premises challenge 14

Nomination for Community Garden Award 15 – Vestry House Museum garden

Sponsors and credits 17

Walthamstow Village in Bloom

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Walthamstow Village is an ancient nucleus of present day Walthamstow, located in north east London. The Domesday Book records that Walthamstow, at the time of the Norman Conquest, comprised four separate village settlements. The parish at the time was called Wilcumestou, probably Old English for the welcome place.

The Village was designated a conservation area by Waltham Forest Council in 1967. At its centre is St Mary’s Church which was consecrated 900 years ago and a 15th century timber-framed hall house known as The Ancient House.

From the 18th century the church common was encroached upon with the erection of the workhouse (now Vestry House Museum), the Squires’ Almhouses and the National School and other notable buildings, many of which are still standing and will be seen in our tour of Walthamstow Village in Bloom.

The coming of the railway in 1869 generated a rapid population increase and the railway cutting itself created a physical barrier between the old village centre and the Victorian development. With the houses came the shops and by 1877 Orford and Beulah Roads had become the shopping centre of Walthamstow. The relocation of the Town Hall from Vestry House to Orford Road in 1876 confirmed its status as the centre of Walthamstow. This area is known as the Orford Road conservation area and was designated as such in 1990.

The Village was saved from disfigurement by the opening of the station at the Central which drew commercial development away and the relocation of the town hall to a new building on Forest Road in 1941. In 2003 the WVRA successfully campaigned for Retail Parade Status to be re-granted to Orford Road and, despite the loss of the post office last year, is thriving with new shops and restaurants opening.

The Village has a very distinct atmosphere with its quaint buildings, alleys and quirky streets, shops, pubs and restaurants and has a superb community spirit; those living here consider themselves part of a very special area.

Walthamstow Village in Bloom includes the Walthamstow Village and the Orford Road Conservation Areas and surrounding streets. It encompasses areas of the Hoe Street and Wood Street wards of the London Borough of Waltham Forest.


Introduction

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Walthamstow Village in Bloom boundary

Walthamstow Village

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In 2003 the newly formed Walthamstow Village Residents’ Association Environment Committee ran its first Annual Spring Clean. The Village was in a terrible state and many complaints received at Open Meetings were about litter, graffiti and the piles of rubbish and fly-tipping that had been accumulating over the years in every nook and cranny, corner, path and alley of the Village.

The local newspaper, the Walthamstow Guardian, was running a Pride in Waltham Forest campaign with LB Waltham Forest and so we applied for equipment and a special rubbish collection to spring clean the Village.

This first clean attracted 70 volunteers of all ages. We divided people into teams to tackle areas that concerned them, and in six hours, with the help of two local van drivers and lunch laid on by WVRA, we cleaned up the Village. We also removed fly-posting and painted over graffiti. The rubbish that year amounted to many tonnes and included a dumped motorbike, an engine and domestic appliances.

Over the years the rubbish collected has become less and less. When someone dumps something it instantly stands out and we have encouraged people to report items immediately to Waltham Forest Direct so that it is dealt with before it becomes a problem.

The Spring Clean is always a very satisfying, enjoyable and well-attended event and has helped instil pride in the area; it gives everyone a chance to work together, meet their neighbours and improve the Village.

2009 saw our 7th annual clean attended by 40 people. We laid on a picnic lunch on Vestry Green for all volunteers.

Annual spring clean www.walthamforest.gov.uk

20 April 2009

Issue 48

Circulated to 110,000 homes and businesses in Waltham Forest Big Clean Up starts

here

Follow in the footsteps of the WVRA

The clean went really

well with 45 volunteers

litter picking and removing graffiti

Lovey o u r b o r o u g h

THE

BIGCLEAN UPApril–June

2009

M embers of the Walthamstow

Village Resident’s Association

were parading their green credentials

on Saturday 4 April as part of the Big

Clean Up – the latest initiative under

the Council’s ‘Wiping Out Enviro-

Crime’ campaign. In their seventh annual spring clean,

residents donated their valuable spare

time to clean, sweep and generally spruce

up St Mary’s church yard as well as their

local streets, paths and playgrounds. The

rubbish they collected was carted off by

the Council at the end of the day.

“The clean went really well with

about 45 volunteers litter picking,

removing graffiti, painting street

furniture or gardening,” said event

organiser Helen. “We laid on a

picnic lunch and the weather was

fabulous, which always makes for a

good day.” The Big Clean Up is taking place

between now and June and will see

councillors and staff joining forces with

residents to lead clean ups across the

borough. Residents can also follow the

example of the Walthamstow Village

Resident’s Association by organising

an event of their own, and receive

council support. more info: Read more about the Big Clean Up

and the first council led event on

page three. Wedding receptions, parties,

conferences, team building, & corporate activity days t: 020 8498 5300 e: [email protected] w: scouts.org.uk/conferences

INSIDE

Jermain Defoe

Students at O2

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10 First polyclinic

7 Reuse centre

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Host borough


In 2003 the local Guardian, under its Pride in Waltham Forest campaign, supplied community groups with spring bulbs to brighten up their areas. The Environment Committee applied for crocuses and daffodils and a group of us planted them in the garden area in the Village Square.

We have run a bulb planting event every year since, with bulbs kindly donated by LB Waltham Forest. Thousands of daffodils have been planted over the whole Village area including Vestry Green and down the length of Vinegar Alley that runs along the churchyard.

In October 2008, our 6th bulb planting event, 15 residents planted 1000 February Gold daffodils, 500 in Vinegar Alley and 500 in the newly planted raised beds.


Bulb planting

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The Walthamstow Village Residents’ Association monthly Gardening Club started in August 2004 to tend the garden on the corner of Eden and Orford Roads (later becoming the Village Square) and other areas around the Village.

We meet on the first Saturday of each and every month and have a year-round list of activities that includes weeding, planting and pruning, litter-picking, painting out and cleaning off graffiti, painting street furniture and clearing and cutting back vegetation from footpaths. The Gardening Club also maintains the brick-built planters. Sometimes we work on specific projects such as clearing the Vestry Road flowerbed or the green area by The Ancient House.

We have a core group of stalwarts who turn up every month, come rain or shine. Before each gardening day

a reminder email is sent to the 200 people on the WVRA contact list; some of whom come along if they are available and if they want to participate in a certain project. Those who join in include families with children and people of all ages, abilities and from a variety of backgrounds.

Volunteers bring their own tools and gloves and we are supplied with bags by LB Waltham Forest.

Monthly gardening club


In July 2003, fed up with the appalling state of the garden on the corner of Orford and Eden Roads, the WVRA Environment Committee decided to run a gardening day to weed and clean up the area. There was no litter bin, the benches were broken and shabby and were inhabited all day by street drinkers and the beds were full of weeds, strewn with rubbish and were being used as a toilet.

Once we had cleaned up we envisaged that the garden, paved in the centre, with its beds and trees, could become a very serviceable village square to be used and enjoyed by all.

We approached Waltham Forest council who told us about their Adopt-an-Open Space scheme and WVRA were given the go ahead to adopt the area. We then applied for a Living Spaces grant via the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for new benches, a bin, plants, topsoil, mulch, bird and insect boxes and a notice board for the use of residents and local voluntary groups. All street furniture had to be approved by the LBWF Conservation Officer and we had to apply for permission for the installation of the notice board in a conservation area. The WVRA paid for the public liability insurance that the ODPM required that we held. (continued)

Village square – Eden Road project


In February 2005 we learnt that we had been awarded £3,970 to cover the cost of the items needed. Of course all the labour had to be supplied by residents and we were supervised by John Chambers, a local builder who collected the materials we needed in his van. A second bench was donated by a family in memory of a resident who had sadly passed away.

Each month we carried out a different job and, despite being tied up in some red tape regarding the notice board, we eventually completed the Eden Road Project in February 2006. These monthly activities led to the birth of the WVRA Gardening Club.

Since 2005 LB Waltham Forest has donated a Christmas tree and lights for the Village Square and the WVRA holds an annual carol singing event that is attended by 200+ residents. The notice board is well used by local groups and residents and now people know where to come to seek information about events and local news. The square is used in the summer months for craft events, the Plant, and Seed Swap and also by the Safer Neighbourhood Team for their crime prevention stall.

The Square has become one of the focal points of the Village; full of flowers, clean and well-cared for, it is a pleasant place in which residents and shoppers can meet or sit.

Village square – Eden Road project (continued)


Walthamstow Village is a quaint area that has many old paths and alleys and a large churchyard. Unfortunately, over the years there have been spates of muggings and robberies and even a murder that have taken place in these areas.

At Open Meetings residents called for action to be taken and the police carried out an Environmental Audit. On the advice of the Metropolitan Police the Monthly Gardening Club has carried out work to “eliminate recesses, blind corners and hiding places” and remove traces of graffiti and ‘tagging’.

This has included:• a clearance of the overgrown area of the

churchyard, with congregants of St Mary’s

• clearance of ivy and laurels from the green adjacent to The Ancient House

• regular removal of graffiti and fly-tipping and maintenance of verges in Vinegar Alley

• removal and painting over of graffiti and tagging on walls, signs and street furniture

• reporting, and encouraging residents to report lighting defects and street problems to Waltham Forest Direct

• reporting fly-tipping and graffiti on the railway embankments to Network Rail

• cutting back of vegetation blocking sightlines and pathways

Crime prevention



CampaignsThe WVRA and the Environment Committee has instigated a number of campaigns to enhance the environment:

• Council Special collection Leafleted properties and written articles in each newsletter to inform residents of LBWF’s free rubbish collections to cut down on fly-tipping and the dumping of household goods in the street.

• Poop Scoop Joined the Dogs’ Trust and has run anti-dog mess and responsible dog ownership campaigns during National Poop Scoop Week; the WVRA paid for laminated posters for a campaign with Henry Maynard School PTA in 2008.

• ENCAMS Joined ENCAMS who run the Keep Britain Tidy Campaign.

• Recycling Encouraged residents to recycle Christmas trees with a poster campaign.

• Council Meetings Since 2004 attended the Walthamstow and Lea Bridge Community Council meetings to ensure Village residents’ voices are heard and was instrumental in getting 8 new litter bins for the Village.

• Letting agents Written to estate and letting agents to get redundant boards taken away.

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The sight of dog mess is unfortunately very common throughout our streets. Not only is it

unpleasant to look at but it is also very embarrassing when you step in it! It

also may contain the

roundworm Toxocara canis, the eggs of which, when swallowed, can result in a range of

symptoms from aches and pains and bronchial conditions to eyesight being damaged. So please

ensure you worm your adult dog every 6 months. Pregnant bitches and puppies need to be

wormed more often. You can get the tablets from the vet, the pet shop or supermarket and the

treatment depends on your dog’s weight.

The National Canine Defence League and The Walthamstow Village Association and are urging

dog owners to “GRAB IT, BAG IT AND BIN IT”

GRAB IT – Always keep a supply of plastic bags near your dog’s lead. Supermarket carrier bags

make great poop scoops – so don’t forget to take a poop scoop with you on every walk. Simply

insert your hand in the plastic bag and pick up your dog’s waste. It’s easy and not as bad as you

think.

BAG IT – Carefully turn the plastic bag inside out and your dog’s mess will th

en be “bagged”.

BIN IT – Dispose of your bag in a poop bin. Contrary to popular belief, dog waste can also be

put into a public litterbin if a specific dog waste bin is not provided.

IT IS AN OFFENCE IF YOUR DOG FOULS AND YOU DO NOT CLEAR UP

For further advice please contact the ANIMAL WARDEN SERVICE on 020 8496 2231/2229

Dog’s Mess is endangering the health of our children. You could be responsible for

blindness in children and other serious illnesses.

The Problem: A single gram of dog’s mess contains 23 million bacteria -

causing cramps, diarrhoea, intestinal illness, and serious kidney

disorders. In severe cases, it can cause BLINDNESS IN

CHILDREN. Rain does not wash the problem away – the bacteria stay on the

pavement, even though you can’t see them.

Kids tread the dog’s mess into schools on their feet. It transfers to

hands, and then to mouths. Your dog’s mess is putting children at

risk!

More than 164 million school days are lost due to illness.

The Law: Under the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005,

owners who don’t pick up their dog’s mess are liable to fines: up

to £1000. Residents are ALREADY photographing and reporting offenders

to Waltham Forest Direct on 020 8496 3000. Calls are treated

in confidence - and taken seriously.

The Solution:

If you have a garden, teach your dog to toilet there; then bag the

waste.

Never let your dog out alone to "go to the loo".

When walking, a simple plastic bag will do the trick - or buy

poop scoops

Your bags or poop scoop should be as unforgettable as a lead

when you take your dog out.

You can order free hygienic 'poop a scoop' bags by

contacting Waltham Forest Direct on 020 8496 3000

Every time your dog fouls - “bag it - and bin it!” Look for

designated dog waste bins OR take it home and dispose of it OR

double wrap it and put in a normal litter bin.

Get your dog wormed regularly.

Children should wash their hands thoroughly with soap,

especially before meals.

Bag it - and Bin it!

Please share this leaflet with family and friends.

(Produced by concerned parents of Henry Maynard School, in association with the

Walthamstow Village Residents Association)

Walthamstow Village Residents’ Association

Dear Resident,

We carried out a Spring Clean of the Village over the weekend and noticed the items at the front of

your property. Did you know that Waltham Forest Council provide a free collection service for bulky

items or other household waste that is not suitable to be collected as part of the weekly household

refuse collection?

The Council will provide three free special collections each year to each domestic household. The

year runs from 1st April to 31st March.

When you request a collection you will be told the day when your bulky waste will be collected.

This will be within a maximum of 6 days. To request your special collection, contact Waltham

Forest Direct:

Telephone: 020 8496 3000

Email: [email protected]

What do special collections pick up?

• up to 10 light sacks of household, OR

• garden waste, OR

• a 3-piece suite, OR

• a dining room suite (table and 4 chairs), OR

• one double, or two single wardrobes (upright or collapsed), OR

• a bed and mattress, OR

• one item of white goods (such as a fridge, freezer, cooker, washing machine, spin dryer,

dishwasher, or similar appliance)

• Only items that you have asked to be collected will be removed

We respectfully ask that, at your earliest convenience, you would kindly arrange to have the waste

removed.

Yours faithfully,

Environment Committee

WALTHAMSTOW VILLAGE RESIDENTS’

ASSOCIATION

ENVIRONMENT COMMITTEE

Dear Resident, Did you know that Waltham Forest Council could provide you with 3 FREE collections of bulky household waste per year? Examples of what can be collected on a special collection: up to 10 light sacks of household or garden

waste, or a 3 – piece suite, or a dining room suite (table and 4 chairs), or a bed and mattress, or a cooker/fridge/freezer Ring Clarence and list the items you wish to be taken away and their adviser will tell you whether your rubbish equates to one, two or three collections. You may request all 3 free collections at the same time.

To request a Special Collection please call CLARENCE on freephone 0800 23 23 23.

If you require any further information or help, please call me on 8503 6308. Thank you, Helen Lerner Environment Co-ordinator Walthamstow Village Residents’ Association.

Recycle ‘real’ Christmas trees

This year, residents can recycle ‘real’ Chistmas trees in three ways.

Take your tree to a recycling centre

Christmas trees can be taken to one of our three main recycling centres:

o Kings Road Recycling Centre in Chingford o South Access Household Waste and Recycling Centre in

Walthamstow o Leyton Reuse and Recycling Centre in Leyton (near

Asda store)

Request a special collection

You can request a special collection for Christmas trees:

o Requests are made by calling 020 8496 3000 before Monday 8 January 2007

o The trees will be collected between Monday 8-Friday 12 January 2007

o This Christmas tree collection will not count as one of your three free special collections for large items

Use your Brown Bin

You can use the Green Waste Collection Service (Brown bin scheme) to recycle your tree:

o If you are in the green waste collection scheme, you can use your brown bin to dispose of your tree

o Please ensure the tree is cut into manageable pieces so that the lid will close

Graffiti Awareness Week, 9-13 October 2006

Graffiti is a criminal act, that can be offensive, it damages others

property and negatively impacts the local environment.

Graffiti includes both words and images that are painted, sprayed or

scratched on the surface of any property. As a criminal offence it

can result in a large fine given out by the magistrate’s court, or up

to £80 fixed penalty notice issued by the council or the police.

The Council is committed to combating graffiti, and is working with

other London Boroughs on reducing and removing graffiti during the

week. The Council has three graffiti removal teams equipped with

jet washers to remove graffiti within the Borough.

During Graffiti Week the Council will be focusing on: graffiti

removal, reducing the number of incidents of graffiti, raising

awareness of the negative impact of graffiti and encouraging the

community to report any offences witnessed.

In addition to this, the October Beat Sweep will have an increased

focus on graffiti and involve joint testing of underage sales of spray

paints by the Anti Social Behaviour Team and Trading Standards

Team. How you can help:

o

By helping remove graffiti, through reporting any you notice

in the borough, this can be done by:

o

Calling Waltham Forest Direct on 020 8496 3000

o

Online at www.walthamforest.gov.uk/formsgraffiti/

o

By helping us catch those who do graffiti, if you know who is

responsible for graffiti you see then please report them by calling

Waltham Forest Direct on 020 8496 3000 and asking for the

Anti Social Behaviour Team

Let’s use this week to work together to make a stand against

this criminal offence in our borough.

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Around the Village are several brick planters, built by L B Waltham Forest as part of a general improvement programme in the early 1980s. Rather than enhancing the area these planters were an eyesore; the brickwork was damaged, the dense shrubs had far outgrown their situations and they blocked light and sightlines of roads and pavements. They were also a magnet for litter and the dumping of drug paraphernalia.

Between 2003 and 2007 the WVRA, on numerous occasions and on the advice of the police, approached LB Waltham Forest to deal with the planters but there was no available budget. The Gardening Club tried to tackle them but it proved an industrial-sized job and we couldn’t make much of an impression.

Then, at the end of 2007, the LBWF ran an initiative to enable residents to adopt a flowerbed. We applied and it was agreed we could adopt seven. The council emptied them of plants and the brickwork collapsed! As they are situated in a conservation area they had

to be rebuilt using identical and expensive bricks and the Conservation Officer granted part of his budget to do this. The WVRA agreed to use £2,700 from its funds for the planting of six planters with Fullers Builders sponsoring planting and maintenance of one as well.

Graham Sherman of Outer Space Gardens designed wonderful, mixed planting plans for each planter to provide year-round colour and interest. The plants had to be hardy and drought-tolerant to stand up to the challenging conditions of the exposed sites. Work was completed in autumn 2008.

Adoption of planters

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Following the advice of the police and Hoe Street Safer Neighbourhood Team after a spate of muggings and a murder in the churchyard, at the end of 2008 the Gardening Club cleared the terribly overgrown flowerbed on the green outside the Vestry House Museum.

This was another bed that was blocking sightlines from Church Path and Church End and providing cover for anti-social activity. Being left untended for the best part of 20 years, it was well-overdue for drastic treatment.

Martyn Cox, a horticultural journalist, donated a box of thousands of bulbs and the Gardening Club planted these to make a terrific spring display.

Identified as a key area in the heart of Walthamstow Village, in May 2009 the WVRA voted to spend £1,600 on a planting scheme designed by Graham Sherman of Outer Space Gardens.

Vestry Green flowerbed

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In March 2009, to encourage residents to improve their front gardens, window boxes and planters, and to enter Walthamstow Village in Bloom’s Front Garden Challenge, we held our first Plant and Seed Swap on the Village square.

Hundreds of packets of seeds, made up by Graham and Teresa, were given out and people brought their left-over seeds to swap. Graham answered gardeners’ queries and identified plants that people had brought. Children were given packets of marigold, sunflower and love-in-a-mist seeds.

John and Shaun ran free workshops showing people how to make window boxes from reclaimed wood.Terracotta and plastic plant pots of all shapes and sizes were also swapped.

The day was such a success that we have decided to run a Plant and Seed Swap in autumn and spring each year.

Plant and seed swap


We launched the Front Garden Challenge 2009 at the annual Spring Clean to encourage residents to participate in Walthamstow Village in Bloom. Leaflets containing an entry form, information, news, our aims and some encouragement and advice were distributed to each address within our in Bloom boundary.

There are three categories:

• Front gardens• Balcony• Hanging baskets/containers/window boxes

More news, articles and details of the judging date will be included in the June edition of the WVRA newsletter. All entries will receive a certificate of participation and we will choose an overall best entry for nomination in the London in Bloom Front Garden Award.

Residents are encouraged to use peat-free products, to use water wisely and to attract wildlife.

Front garden challenge


To encourage non-residential premises to participate in Walthamstow Village in Bloom we launched the Beautiful Premises Challenge 2009 and leafleted businesses, schools, organisations, alms and sheltered housing communities and religious and community groups within our in Bloom boundary.

There are three categories:

• Gardens/grounds• Display/shop front• Hanging baskets/containers/window boxes

The leaflets, as well as containing an entry form, information, news, our aims and some encouragement and advice, contained ways in which businesses may wish to help by sponsoring a display or making a donation.

More news, articles and details of the judging date will be included in the June edition of the WVRA newsletter. All entries will receive a certificate of participation and we will choose overall best entries for nomination in the London in Bloom Business Premises and Pub and Restaurant Award.

Beautiful premises challenge


Nomination for Community Garden Award: Vestry House Museum garden


WITH INVESTMENT FROM THE

Heritage Lottery Fund, the

garden at Vestry House

Museum was transformed

from a bare space into a

new garden, taking its

inspiration from the 18th

Century workhouse, the

home of Vestry House Museum

since it was founded in 1935.

� The garden is maintained by a group of

local volunteers who meet for a working

party every month. Waltham Forest Council

had the garden made over at the

millennium and this group has been pivotal

in ensuring that the planting scheme

reflects that which would have been there

when it was a workhouse.

� The garden is open to everyone, 5 days

per week. It is a peaceful spot to sit in and

completely safe for small children to run

around.

� Local schools are very interested in

including the garden in their visits to the

museum. We label all the plants and keep

a record of their culinary and medicinal

usage.� The community meeting room within

the museum garden, is available for all to

hire, and is much appreciated, especially

at ‘Apple Day’ and at the local residents’

‘Garden Party’.

� We now have the support of a group of

young adults with learning disabilities and

their carers, from ‘The 247 Centre’, who

come and work in their own area of the

garden every week. They have started to

grow their own vegetables and also help to

keep whole garden tidy.

The Garden at

MUSEUMVESTRY HOUSE

The volunteers pictured taking a break during one of their

monthly meetings.

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

One of the many stalls at the annual ‘Apple Day’ celebration.


� The garden is a collection of bedsarranged into different subjects which areinspired by the heritage of the workhouselife.� The garden has a number of areas withspecific challenges, including the shadow ofsome large trees to cope with. � We also aim to provide interest of anaesthetic and educational nature over along season, indeed year round, while alsoallowing the volunteers some flexibility togrow plants that interest them. � One solution to the problem ofcontinuity of interest is to grow plants withevergreen foliage i.e. curly kale and rubychard, which maintains its bright red stemsthroughout the year.

� Our team have a diverse level of skills,and are learning from each other aboutwhat will grow well here. � We try to sustain the interest in thegarden with a balance of perennial plantsand annuals, in addition to the vegetablevarieties.

� Of particular horticultural interest is abed which concentrates on dye plants. � The good drainage from the raised bedsmakes cultivation of Mediterranean plantspossible but snails are a major problem; wetry to control these with non-chemicalmethods such as crushed eggshells.

HORTICULTURAL EXCELLENCE

A further sunny area is planted with speciesknown to sustain a variety of butterflies.� We encourage recycling, through our ownrecycling of green waste with our compostand leaf-mould area, and also through theCouncil’s green waste recycling for largervolumes. We display information noticesadvising school groups and other visitorshow they can recycle their green waste.

� We also respect the museum objectswithin the garden area and work with themuseum staff to ensure the garden contributes to visitors’ understanding ofthe heritage value of the local area.

� The maintenance and development ofthe garden takes into accountenvironmental issues. We use materialswhich are environmentally safe and fromsustainable sources. � We also use complimentary planting todeter garden pests.� A recent area was cleared of weeds bycovering with protective fleece rather thanuse of chemical weed killers.� We have areas of untouched garden tomaximise biodiversity, and maintain anarea of ‘meadow grass’ which is seeded withwildflowers and cut at the end of the season.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS

Dyer’s chamomile, onceused to make yellow dye.

Ruby chard can providecolour throughout the year.

The two compost bins and the leaf-mould container.

Nomination for Community Garden Award: Vestry House Museum garden (continued)


Sponsors and creditsFullers Builders Sponsor of planting and maintenance of brick-built planter

on the junction of Beulah and Grosvenor Rise East

Janice Tildsley Associates Sponsorship of Vestry Road flowerbed

Dan O’Connor – Eat 17 Sponsorship of Vestry Road flowerbed

John Chambers Plumbing & Building Sponsorship of leaflets

Abbey Lithographic Scanning and copying and good humour

Martyn Cox Bulbs

Outer Space Gardens Graham Sherman

Lisa Peachey Portfolio design

Jeremy Williams Photography

London Borough of Waltham Forest Help with equipment, rubbish disposal, spring bulbs and floral lamppost baskets

Walthamstow Village Residents’ Association Committee

Funding most projects, support

Nick and Sarah Trivuncic Poster design

Waltham Forest Guardian (Newsquest Media Group)

Permission to reproduce news cuttings

Kier Group Donation of gardening equipment (to VHM)

WVRA – Walthamstow Village in Bloom CommitteeHelen LernerTeresa DeaconGraham ShermanJohn Chambers

Monthly Gardening Club Regulars Helen LernerTeresa DeaconIvan WhiteMegan WhitearColin StintonYvonne CrossPaul and Sophie GassonSteve Josh Lerner (tea boy and weeding)

And to all the good folk who live or work in Walthamstow Village for their remarkable community spirit and encouragement, support and enthusiasm for our Walthamstow Village in Bloom entry.

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