Forest Hill will be transformed into an Edible High Road as part of the Chelsea Fringe garden festival, and 50 Forest Hill and Honor Oak businesses have sponsored 70 fruit trees, including The Horniman Museum and Sainsbury’s.

Celebrity Gardener Matthew Wilson, Channel Four’s ‘Landscape Man’ and a Gardener’s Question Time panelist, will be cutting our ribbon!

A local Saxophone Quartet and the Holy Trinity School Brass Band will be performing.

Among other special attractions, there will be tours of the new Albion Millennium Green Orchard.

The event has been organised by Lewisham Gardens and The Forest Hill Society, and sponsored by Shannon’s Garden Centre and Winkworth &Co Estate Agents.

The wall between the Green and Albion Villas Road will be partially renovated on 9th May by a Lewisham-accredited builder. The work will involve removal of the top layers of bricks, their storage for later use, and the top layer replaced with some of the same bricks. Lime mortar will be used. It will be very helpful if we could help pay for this with donations to our fund. The original cost was £150, but in order to try to build extra safeguard a top layer of bricks will be put in place which increases the cost to £350.

Donations need not be public or huge but are necessary I’m afraid and every amount will help.
Looking forward to hearing from you

best wishes Ann
Secretary, Friends of Albion Millennium Green

Above: On living Hawthorn

Above: On Decaying Horse Chestnut

Not sure what stump this is on.

And after rennovations:

Top Photo: 03/03/2013 Spawn laid end February

Bottom Photo: 30/03/2013, Spawn has survived cold weather and embryos starting to take shape.

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The festival will open at about 2.00pm on Wednesday 1st when Forest Hill artist Maria Strutz will begin the creation of “Labyrinth”.

The Green’s participation in this event will be from 10am – 6pm on Saturday 16th March. We can take the opportunity to get some important work done so please come along.  It will be helpful if you could let Bruno or myself know if you can.

We’ll be doing some planting and making some more progress towards clearing some brambles and rubbish.  Clearing work has begun to expose old hedges and shrubs which can be nursed back to good health so it’s an exciting prospect to watch it all emerge, and to be part of it!

We already have collected some recycled materials, such as gate posts and some timber but we need  other materials too such as the gate itself and pathway materials. Any good quality recycled and  second hand materials would be welcome. We will be attempting to make the rear entrance wheelchair friendly, so any advice on that front would also help.

Hope to see you some time during the Day, and don’t forget that it is also Open Day at Dacres Wood Nature Reserve just over the other side of the railway line via the iron bridge.