Category: Gardening

Now the local election is settled it’s a good time to review where we are up to in the neighbourhood. In July council officers will report to the new Cabinet on the outcome of the latest consultation on the Wood Green Area Action Plan. There have been some recent successes in challenging the AAP: plans […]

Thanks to Veolia we have been successfully managing the leaf-fall from the lime-trees on Hornsey Park Road. For the last fortnight our street-cleaner has, with great determination, been collecting and bagging them on his twice weekly visits. PMRA collected much of the early fall - lime-trees break down very well to make leaf-mould - and […]

Suppose the area filled up with butterflies and bees. Hedgehogs reappeared. And bats. Air quality improved. Back gardens spoke to public open space (and ‘non-space’) and vice-versa. The Moselle Brook was something you could see and sit beside. If that’s part of your vision for the area we need your time and assistance. Following next […]

The following is part of a presentation given by PMRA to the recent Team Noel Park Community Open Day. Download the PDF of the presentation here: Noel Park Community Event 11-03-17 Community Gardening The Lavender Garden, Hornsey Park Road, N8 Despite its name, Hornsey Park has no park so, since 2010 PMRA has been both creating and […]

Japanese Knotweed is an invasive plant that is difficult and expensive to eradicate. Although permissible to grow, there is a legal requirement to ensure that it does not spread onto neighbouring land. (See link to RHS https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=218 ) The presence of Japanese Knotweed is noted in house surveys for mortgages and is likely to reduce […]

With a general meeting coming up on February 8th it might be useful to look back twelve months to the one we held a year ago on January 27th 2016. Charlotte Levey came from Haringey’s Neighbourhood Action Team to talk about the plans for the council to link up with local residents groups through Team […]

Community Gardeners Dorothy Rose, Noreen Johnstone and John Miles receive a Haringey in Bloom Certificate of Merit on behalf of PMRA at Sunshine Garden Centre on 19th December, 2016 as our community gardening group notches up 10 years.   The certificate was awarded to the Lavender Garden, created by PMRA on neglected ground at the […]

This year Saturday’s ‘Cropping the Lavender’ had a special resonance. Our wonderful community garden at the junction of Clarendon and Hornsey Park Road needed its final trim of the autumn. We completed that quickly and went on to cut back the bushes to make it easier to sweep the pavement. We reduced some of the […]

The Mayor for London’s has awarded us £500 towards our community gardening in Martins Walk, the alleyway between Alexandra Road and Park Ridings, where we plan a mural, a sign to help give the place an identity and a planter opposite the bench at the Alexandra Road end of the alleyway.  Long term, we hope to […]

Each first Saturday of the month Hornsey Park residents are out and about to do a spot of gardening. Nothing serious, a couple of hours spent in the company of fellow inhabitants of the area, everyone contributing as much as they can, a bit of litter picking here, a bit of planting there, nobody is […]