Discover Chiswick’s pocket gardens

Discover

CHISWICK’S POCKET GARDENS

Credit: Barbara Chandler

Follow the Treasure Trail to find them and win some gardening vouchers to spend on your own garden

Chiswick is full of flowers, not just in private gardens and public parks but on odd little scraps of land such as beside the railway line, at the side of the road in the curve of the bridge on Sutton Court Rd, or outside the Town Hall. If you’ve noticed them at all, you may just have assumed they’re cared for by the council, but actually they are the product of careful tending by environmental not-for-profit Abundance London and their volunteers. Abundance London has been creating little gardens around Chiswick for the past decade. Small corners that fell through the cracks which had become areas for fly-tipping and rubbish collection have now become small ‘pocket’ parks. As an activity for children (or anyone else for that matter) they’ve put together a map of twelve sites they look after to make children aware that the urban environment is not just ‘there’, it needs to be cared for. Follow the Treasure Trail around Chiswick, stamp the orienteering punch you will find in each garden in the correct square on the map. Each month Abundance gardeners will draw winners from the entries, who will receive gardening vouchers to spend at your local garden stores. How to get a map: Either download and print out from Abundancelondon.com. Or pick up a map from: Chateau (213 Chiswick High Road W4 2DW), Postmark Cafe (2 Bedford Corner, South Parade, W4 1LD) or Sabel Pharmacy (446 Chiswick High Road W4 5TT). Urban Planters, a wonderful local company that design, source, install and maintain indoor and outdoor plants, has generously sponsored this competition, so Abundance can offer voucher prizes to those completing their Treasure Trails. Rules: One entry per person. Please leave the punches in position. If a punch is missing, please email them on info@abundancelondon. To send in your completed Treasure Trails: Either scan and email (make sure the punch holes show, you might need to add a black dot on each hole), along with a photo of yourself at one of the gardens. Or drop completed maps to one of the pickup points. Make sure to include your contact details.

Turnham Green Terrace piazza

Treasure trail available from the beginning of April 2021

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CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Without any flaws 5. Flesh 8. Examines and corrects 9. Solicit votes 10. Notice 12. Peril 15. Group of 12 18. Separated 20. Overexposure to the sun 23. Doctors 25. Enduring 26. Places to sleep 27. Esteem

DOWN

1. Tranquil 2. Restraint 3. Livid 4. Trunk of the human body 5. Shifts 6. Theoretical 7. Doorkeeper 11. High-pitched tone 13. Midday 14. Laugh loudly 16. Chats 17. Dam extending across the Nile 19. Barren place 21. Single things 22. Republic in NW Africa 24. Dominion QUIZ

1. Which brothers wrote the song Summertime? 2. What is traditionally used as the filling of a summer pudding? 3. Esther Summerson is the heroine of which novel by Charles Dickens? 4. Which European country is the most popular holiday destination for Brits? 5. Which Cornish resort describes itself as ‘The Surfing Capital of Britain’? 6. In which resort did Billy Butlin open his first holiday camp in 1936? 7. Which British seaside attraction is 158 metres tall? 8. Which Oscar-winning actor starred in the film The Beach, based on Alex Garland’s book of the same name? 9. Which of Shakespeare’s sonnets opens: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”? 10. According to folklore, if it rains on St Swithin’s wet weather will last for how many days?

SEE PAGE 19 FOR THE ANSWERS!