The fabulous Cressida joined us in the gardens this week
as our new Community Gardener. She has already been hard at work
with our lovely volunteers - time for winter clear up in the garden!
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a little bit about Cressida from Cressida......
I think I must have been a cat in a past life,
as there is nothing I like more than being right in the middle of a flower
patch. When I was a kid the garden was my domain, with the lawn covered in a
complicated circuit of adventure (a climbing frame that I tied to a slide, that
went into a paddling pool, with a see-saw waiting on the other end so you could
spin dry after the workout) and that excitement of gardens has stayed with me
ever since. My first gardening job was at Brighton Marina where I really got to
grips with hanging baskets (all 300 of them), then worked in a graveyard where
I toiled hours away delicately strimming the grass away from headstones. More
than anything I loved the fresh air, whether it was boiling hot or pelting with
rain, but I did miss working with people so I decided to work as a community
gardener. I’ve spent the past five years doing so at Mudchute Farm and
hopefully taught a few folk to do the basics like pruning (all together now,
remove the dead, damaged and diseased). I’ve also been trained in ‘risky play’
and can legitimately teach kids how to use knives for whittling, and make fires
for food. I’m delighted to be amongst a new landscape and look forward to
exploring all the corners of Deen City Farm, and get to know all the staff and
volunteers who really are the backbone of the place.
Favourite Colour - Red
Favourite Garden – Carrie
Hepple’s Garden (fictional) and King Henry’s Walk Garden Islington (real)
Favourite Vegetable – Corn on the cob
Favourite Musician – Neutral
Milk Hotel
Favourite Plant – Erigeron
karkinskianus
Favourite Bird – Big Bird…oh no
hang on that’s fictional again so I’ll say House sparrow
