Friends of Abbey Gardens

Our Summer Fair is coming up fast and we hope all of you can join and celebrate with us!!

Bring a picnic to Abbey Gardens, take a garden tour, buy plants for your garden, see a nature and wildlife photography exhibition, taste first produce from the garden, bring the family to enjoy craft activities and garden games. Refreshments: tea, coffee and our delicious home-made cakes.

We would also like to take this opportunity to celebrate completion of our Community Spaces grant which funded repairs to fence and new gate, new grass, fruit trees, honesty stall, our sustainable energy provision as well as many other usefull things for the garden.

Abbey Gardens is also taking part in Open Garden Square weekend, a London-wide event on 12 and 13 June. For more information please see http://www.opensquares.org/

We have new visitors at Abbey Gardens…or rather new residents? Two ducks have appeared and they seem to be very comfortable in the garden. Louis says that they will be useful because they eat slugs and snails. Should we watch out for ducklings?

On 5 June supporters and friends of West Ham Church will cycle from West Ham Church to Waltham Abbey and back to raise funds for the choir. Riders will stop by the ruins of Stratford Langthorne Abbey Gatehouse in Abbey Gardens. Supporters of Abbey Gardens are welcome and you don’t need to be sponsored to join the ride.

10am at West Ham Church. If you would like to join the ride please email mail@abbeygardens.org