new neighbor

As a welcome gift to a new neighbor I left a wooden planter at No.5

Round and Round

Following up a request I built round wooden planters for the residents of No. 1

Green door

Oh No , they have turfed over the front door at No.9

New wall at last

The brick wall and planter built from funding 

secured through Peckhams "Cleaner, Greener, Safer " Scheme

Empty

While it was empty we added wooden planters to No.6

wall boxes

Window box style wooden planters were added to the front walls of 20 & 21

spread it about a bit

To make way for the builders to start work on the wall at the end of the street

all the plastic pots were relocated to No.s 

11 12 13 14 15 & 16

Art

         

After the drug dealers were moved on by the police 

some artists installed an art project on the ugly metal grills left by the council 

and then the children of No.5 painted it ,

which was nice.

polish help

We left a wooden planter outside No.16

The polish squatters who were living in the house helped us fill it with soil

and continued to care for it until their eviction.

more wood

we left wooden planters outside No.18

but due to the transient nature of the constantly changing residents

they have not been looked after as we had hoped

wood

we left two wooden planters outside No.13

woood

We left a wooden planter outside No.11

This is now overflowing with lavender 

a pleasure to walk past.

Behind the wall

We left a wooden planter outside No.19

This was filled and then surrounded with other pots

by the occupants of the house.

Planning Notice

After some discussion the newly formed and respectably titled

"Holbeck Row Gardening Society"

applied for, and won, funding from southwark council "cleaner , greener, safer" scheme

to rebuild the wall at the end of the road and to include a planter from one side of the road to the other, which would replace our plastic pots. 

Trees

After the very short life cycle of the balloon.

Old xmas trees were added to the pots too dissuade local cats from using our pots

as their lavatory.