2022

Flora & Fauna, Latest News, Trees

Last winter we planted 12 new trees – a mixture of natives and non-natives. We kept them well watered. We planted out the huge central round bed in spring with 400 plants, chosen as good for pollinators. We had to keep it watered through the drought. We took...

Throughout covid

Blog, Community, Flora & Fauna, Latest News, nature

The cemetery has been an inspiration to so many people – especially in the worst of the pandemic – being near to trees and nature has been a life-saver for many. Paths through the grass are worn from usage!

Storm damage June 2017

Blog, Flora & Fauna

With such high winds and trees in full leaf it is sad to see old friends suffer. A sycamore weakened by disease split in half. It has had extensive tree surgery and might still live a few more years. Meanwhile, we are planting young trees and whips each autumn to...

OUTSTANDING again in 2016

Blog, Community, Flora & Fauna, Uncategorized

The Friends of Margravine Cemetery again did well in the  London in Bloom awards 2016. We were judged as ‘Outstanding’ in the ‘It’s Your Neighbourhood’ category, and gained a silver-gilt in the ‘Our...

Lichens 2016

Blog, Flora & Fauna, Lichen, nature

This year the first expert identification of lichens was carried out. Ishpi Blatchley, our expert, made an initial survey and then took a small group round to show us what she had found in her 2 hours in the cemetery. We learnt that each lichen is really 2 organisms...

Success last summer

Community, Flora & Fauna

The Friends entered the It’s Your Neighbourhood category for ‘London in Bloom’ as usual but in 2015 were judged ‘Outstanding’ for the first time. This was in addition to the successful retention of our Green Flag.   For the RHS...