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A Jolly Wassail

Join us in the greenhouse to make noisy shakers and wonderful wassail crowns, ready for the Jolly Wassail!

We’ll use recycled and natural materials to make percussion instruments, and craft beautiful decorative crowns to wear.

When everyone is crowned and happy with their home made instruments, we will learn songs from our wonderful wassailing musicians the Appleheads and the Norfolk Broads.

Then we will sing to our fruit trees and make as much noise as possible, to ‘wake up’ the sleeping trees and scare away any bad spirits. Our wassailing will make sure we have a bountiful harvest in 2019!

There will be plenty of tea, mulled cider and apple juice throughout.

This is a workshop for all ages.

What to bring: warm clothes, torches and any noisy instruments you fancy bringing along!

Exit from Brockwell Park via the Lido Gates at the end of the event.

Christmas Hols, Wassailing and Scale Insects

We hope you have a very good Christmas and New Year and enjoy a restful time. The Greenhouses will be open as usual up to and including Sunday 23rd Dec. We will then be closed until Saturday 5th January when we will spring back into action with some NEW YEAR WASSAILING. Do join us on this first Saturday […]

Red Veg, Green Toms, Home Schooling

This week in the garden We will be harvesting our outdoors tomatoes and clearing the bed for the autumn. Despite the hot summer there remain a lot of tomatoes that have still not ripened on the vine. We may use these to make a batch of green tomato chutney, but we will also try an […]

Greenhouse Jazz – CHEBETOJAZZ

For the Herne Hill Music Festival, we have CHEBETOJAZZ, a jazz quartet led by dynamic saxophonist Jose “Chebeto” Requena, featuring; Nick McCarthy on guitar, Michael Giaquinto on bass and Steve Butcher on drums and percussion. Based in South London, their music is a mixture of standards and original compositions, influenced by the sounds and rhythms of Chebeto’s native Venezuela.

Arrive by 3.45pm for a 4pm to 5pm performance.

Tickets available here

Squash Roast Up

During Urban Food Fortnight, for this Saturday lunch, we are going to fire up our cob oven and roast the yummy courgettes, marrows and squashes we’ve grown in our gardens. Seasoned with our garlic, onions, tomatoes and herbs and served with some home-baked sourdough bread, it should be pretty delicious. For pudding, we’ll have grapes grown in our Upper Greenhouse.

You’ll also be able to marvel at our our ornamental Gourds which will be getting bigger and better by the day in our Gorgeous Gourds exhibition in our lower Greenhouse. Check out the swan gourd, the bottle neck gourd and many more!

There are just a few tickets left to buy on the gates today. Find us in the lower garden by the Cob Oven!

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