Can you help us?

 

For our HARVEST FESTIVAL this year we are collecting food for the Wimbledon Foodbank. Please see http://wimbledon.foodbank.org.uk/ for more info on what they do. 

We are collecting...Milk (UHT or powdered), Sugar (500g), Fruit juice (carton), Soup, Pasta sauces, Sponge pudding (tinned), Tomatoes (tinned), Cereals, Rice pudding (tinned), Tea Bags/instant coffee, Instant mash potato, Rice/pasta, Tinned meat/fish, Tinned fruit, Jams, Biscuits or snack bars

If you can help us please bring any food to our farm shop by the 28th September 2013.

 

Also ....We will be having a CAKE STALL at the Harvest Festival so if you could contribute; any cake or muffin is welcomed whether its carrot or chocolate, fruit or sponge we would love them all!  If you can help us please let us know on 020 8543 5300 or just pop it down on the day!

E-mail louisa.loakes@deencityfarm.co.uk for more info.

 

Thank you! & please feel free to spread the word for us!

Explorer Thursdays - The flower fabrics

 

Just a few photos from last weeks Explorer Thursdays making patterns on fabric using flowers and leaves. They came out beautifully i think you would agree...? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Thursday join us and explore the life of bees in the garden.

Free activities throughout the day 11am - 4pm

 

Harvest Festival 2013

Come and help us celebrate this years Harvest Festival 2013

If you are interested helping whether it be having a stall, baking a cake for our cake stall or playing some music in the garden for us, please let us know on 020 8543 5300 (ask for louisa) 

We will look forward to seeing you!

Pottery Workshop

 

 

Come and learn how to make your own mug or plate!

(and take it home with you to use afterwards!)

To book your place please call 020 8543 5300

Snippets from the garden this week

Old leek flowers

Hundred weight pumpkin tendrils

Rhubarb soon to be crumble

echinacea

Baby squash

Spinach, courgettes and runner beans for our farm shop.

mini marrow

Our pumpkin and squash display


Sunny sunflowers



Growing grapes

Explorer Thursdays down at the farm

 

 

Come and join us for our Thursday explorer days in the garden at Deen City Farm. Every Thursday in August there will be different activities throughout the day! 11am - 4pm

 

All activities are FREE. Donations are welcome.

 

 

GREAT! Dixter

 

Our annual garden trip last week was to my favorite garden in the world, Great Dixter. The garden is a magical path of colour and aromas, it really does overwhelm your scenses.  The volunteers wandered slowly discovering a different flower around each corner.

 

It was a beautiful sunny day, one to remember.

 

Great Dixter was the family home of gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd – it was the focus of his energy and enthusiasm and fuelled over 40 years of books and articles. Now under the stewardship of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust and Christopher’s friend and head gardener, Fergus Garrett, Great Dixter is an historic house, a garden, a centre of education, and a place of pilgrimage for horticulturists from across the world.

 

 

 

The borders are mixed, not herbaceous. I see no point in segregating plants of differing habit or habits. They can all help one another. So you’ll see shrubs, climbers, hardy and tender perennials, annuals and biennials, all growing together and contributing to the overall tapestry.

 

 

A little from the head gardener on colour...

 

There are no segregated colour schemes. In fact, I take it as a challenge to combine every sort of colour effectively. I have a constant awareness of colour and of what I am doing, but if I think a yellow candelabrum of mullein will look good rising from the middle of a quilt of pink phlox, I’ll put it there – or let it put itself there. Many plants in this garden are self-sown and they often provide me with excellent ideas.

 

 



 

 

Thank you for all of the gardening volunteers hard work in the garden over the year.

 

We couldn't do it without you!

 

 

Fancy a visit? Click here for the Great Dixter website... 

 

http://www.greatdixter.co.uk/

 

Fairwell flos botanical beauties

 

THANK

 

YOU

 

FLO

 

Flo(who sadly finished in the garden last week after a year with us)was a ray of sunshine in the garden. I would like to say a huge thank you for all she has done in the garden and with the volunteers over this time. Come back and visit us!

 

A few snippets from the year...   

  

 

 

Flo - her first week in the garden

 

 

 

 

Last day - Trip to Great Dixter

 



 

Flo and her favorite flowers, Digitalis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our trip to the Natural History Museum 2012

 

 

Flo up the allotment

 



 

 

The last week in the garden 

 

 

A

 

HUGE

 

 

GOOD

 

LUCK

 

FOR

 

THE

 

FUTURE

 

FLO!

 

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