Gardening on the Brandon Estate
In Autumn 2017 Southwark council awarded the estate a grant to have a landscape gardener design a planting scheme, and the plants were put in place in late 2017. A group of residents decided to get involved with helping with the planting, and have taken on the responsibility of watering, weeding, and maintaining the plants.
In the planters at the base of Cruden House, we currently have a variety of herbs, sage, rosemary, bay leaves, thyme, lemon thyme, and also some edible vegetables, tomatoes, chilli peppers, courgettes, sweet peas, and sweetcorn growing. The intention is that these be available to residents and members of the gardening group.
We have access to water and hosepipes at the base of Cornish, Cruden and Brawne houses, and in this hot weather we really need to water the planters about twice a week. It is actually quite therapeutic, and in the sunny weather quite a nice way to relax and de-stress, after a long day at work.
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Photo Credit: Loz Pycock – Flickr: Henry Moore’s ‘Two Piece Reclining Figure No 3’, Brandon Estate