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Summer 2023: Ripening fruit
It's late July, the middle of summer. The flowering frenzy of springtime seems a long time ago, and there are still a couple of months to...


March 2023: Colour makes a comeback
Springtime is finally here. The temperature is slowly rising, blue skies are cautiously returning and the sun is getting just strong...


February 2023: Fruits of our labour
Before we go any further, a correction. In the last issue of the newsletter our co-organiser Jeff embarrassingly misidentified the two...


January 2023: New year, new trees
In this time of climate change, can we rely on our traditional calendar of the seasons any longer? In July 2022 Southwark council was...


December 2022: Planting time again
Now that the third warmest November on record has come to an end, winter has swept down from the Arctic and the first frosts of the...


November 2022: Autumn postcards
Just a few days ago we experienced the warmest Armistice Day (November 11) ever, a troubling portent of what lies ahead. “The past eight...