Chelsea Fringe

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Chelsea Fringe is a series of events founded in 2012 which accompanies the Chelsea Flower Show of the Royal Horticultural Society in London and the surrounding area and in Bristol . It is a community interest company founded by Tim Richardson and is mainly supported by volunteers, but also supported by the National Trust . City beautification activities ( guerrilla gardening ) through private initiatives are also taken into account, such as the roundabout in Victoria Park Village (Lauriston Road) in Hackney . Numerous Londoners give insights into their private gardens. There are also readings by authors , art exhibitions and art events.

2012

In 2012, around 100 individual activities took place, including Steve Wheen's pothole gardens, a bicycle beer garden , a floating forest in Portobello Dock and the greening of river boats on the Thames and its canals. An "edible shopping street" with fruit trees has been established in Chiswick .

2013

In 2013 the Chelsea Fringe took place from May 18th to June 9th. The venues included the Garden Museum in Lambeth , Battersea Power Station and the Rothsay Community Herb Garden in Bedford . An emphasis was placed on the cultivation of crops ( urban gardening ) in the city, so among other things an "edible bus stop " (Lambeth Hospital Bus Stop, Route 322) and an "edible shopping street" (Salusbury Road and Queens Park High Street, NW6) ) planned. A “bee-friendly taxi” planted by Adele Hewitt and Fiona Weir was exhibited in the newly designed garden of the Horniman Museum in Dulwich .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abigail Willis: Get friendly with the Chelsea Fringe ( Memento from June 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Steve Wheen: The Little Book of Little Gardens. Document Press, Årsta 2017, ISBN 978-91-85639-54-0 ( https://www.thepotholegardener.com/blog/2012/11/18/the-little-book-of-little-gardens-2?rq = Wheen) /
  3. ↑ http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/your_home_and_garden/outdoors/chelseafringealternativeflowershow.html
  4. ↑ a b The English Garden, Spring 2013, 11
  5. ↑ http://www.fennelandfern.co.uk/blog/2012/05/31/pop-up-gardens-at-the-chelsea-fringe/
  6. ↑ Abigail Willis: Bees under the bonnet ( Memento of May 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )