Next Orchard Day

Please help to finish weeding and mulching the fruit trees and bushes on Sunday May 17th 2-4 pm but even 20 minutes helps (and then to the Shakespeare pub)

• refreshments provided
• gloves & tools to borrow
  
• plants for sale - please bring any spare plants you have - all profits towards orchard upkeep

Butterfield Green Group Meeting- April

At the last meeting, we agreed to

• ask the Learning Trust to alter the sign near BG stream
• ask the parks manager about improving maintainance in BG
• ask to meet the newly appointed parks development manager
• obtain photos of the BURA award for community development that the orchard won in March
• have an orchard care day on May 17th

We are meeting the parks manager and the development officer on May 8th - let us know if you would like us to raise anything

A sign of the times?

We have had a number of responses regarding the newly installed sign near the stream on Butterfield Green - would you like to comment, too?

Picnic in the Park - Sunday 7th June - from 12:00 noon

This year we will be trying something a bit different!

In place of the fair on Butterfield Green we will be having a giant picnic, with Acoustic Music, some Entertainers and plenty of activities for Children.

More details will be available soon.


Photo by Norma Desmond

Planting Day at Butterfield Green Stream

Scores of sustainable plants - including grasses, irises, euphorbia, bergenia and epimedium - were planted by extremely hard-working neighbours of the Green and many of their children on Saturday 4th April.

Plants needing a warmer and drier spot were placed in the circular bed near Wordsworth Road. These include lavender, sedum and grasses.

The top end of the stream was cleared - revealing another bench from the original early 1980's design, which incorporated urban materials such as granite kerb stones and railway sleepers amongst the naturalistic boulders and hillocks of the stream banks.

A big thank you to all helpers and especially to

• Annie Wilson and Lucy Bristow for the planting plan.
• Tassy from the design company Rattlin Boag, which is installing the bridge and the water pump as well as refurbishing the stream. She worked with us all day - and provided the delicious cakes and tea.
• Hackney Parks for providing the compost and the plants.
  

The funds for these works were obtained by the Butterfield Green Group - part of the Shakespeare Neighbourhood Residents' Association.



Clearing the Stream



Planting by the stream

March 2009 meeting minutes

Please click here for the minutes from the March 2009 meeting of the Shakespeare Neighbourhood Residents' Association.

The minutes are in Word file format. If you don't have Word, you may need to install the free Word viewer.

Please click here for the March edition of the Shakespeare Neighbourhood Residents' Association newsletter.

This issue features dates for the launch of the new stream and bridge in Butterfield Green, an award for the orchard, and news on Nevill Road's new trees.

The newsletter is a PDF file--you may need to install the free Acrobat Reader to view it: www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.