Posts by Cultivation Street Staff
Essential Items for Every Community Garden
Essential Items for Every Community Garden There are lots of useful tools that you can use to build the perfect garden. Often, it can be about maintaining it too. Cataloguing what you need and ensuring you have the right stuff shouldn’t be complicated or scary, and simply knowing where to start can be enough in…
Read More...The Language of Flowers
The Language of Flowers Floriography and the British Garden Floriography, or the language of flowers, was a secret language used to cryptically convey messages. Each flower had its own specific meaning. Upon receipt, they would express feelings which could not be freely spoken. This grew in popularity, especially during the Victorian era. Strict etiquette prevented…
Read More...How Plants Grow
How Do Plants Grow? – And Other Questions for School Gardeners – Growing stuff can be fun. It’s an awesome way to discover the world around you and get more hands on. It allows you to get more creative, and find inspiration through the outside world. Having a school garden is a brilliant way to…
Read More...Cultivation Street Launch 2022
Cultivation Street Launch 2022 This year marks 10 years of Cultivation Street! Thank you so much for joining us on this journey. We are so excited to see where it takes us next. From the 7th to 13th of March, we are running our annual Cultivation Street Week 2022, so what better time to get…
Read More...5 Essential Plants for a School Sensory Garden
The purpose of a sensory garden is to engage with nature, and let the plants and elements satisfy your senses. The more vivid and exciting your garden, the more children will feel encouraged to get involved. Here at Cultivation Street, we believe that a garden should be enjoyed by everyone. That’s why we want to…
Read More...10 best plants for kids to grow
Over here at Cultivation Street, we’ve compiled a list of the ten best plants for kids to grow. If your garden is missing a smaller helping hand then what better place to start? Gardening with children shouldn’t have to be complicated, but knowing where to start can be daunting. Getting kids involved with growing can…
Read More...CULTIVATION STREET 2021 WINNERS
A note from David Domoney Despite or perhaps because of lockdown, Cultivation Street 2021 saw more entries than ever before. Record numbers of people entered our community gardening competition, including many returning projects, but also a fabulous number of brand-new entries, gardens created over the past 18 months and still coming into their own. These…
Read More...Cultivation Street 2021 GRO YOUR BEST VOTE
Plants to fill the gaps
Have you got some spaces in your borders that you’re looking to fill? It’s very often that we plant scarcely to ensure plants have enough space for the roots to grow. However, once your border is established, you may notice that there are some large spaces that could be filled. There are many varieties of…
Read More...Jobs for July
After a gorgeous sunny June, your garden should be luscious and colourful. As we close in on July, we want to help you make the most of your summer garden with getting a head start on your July jobs. Deadheading Your bedding plants and perennials by now will probably need deadheading. Especially if you want…
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