Running for the Winter Garden
The Friends of Battersea Park team of Sophie Campbell, Angela Grant, Joanne Taylor and Sherrin Thompson have been invited to run in the JP Morgan Corporate Challenge on 8th July, raising money for the final phase of the Winter Garden. Located by the Sun Gate, at the south-west corner of the Park, and designed by Dan Pearson, the Winter Garden will celebrate the darker season with plants that provide vibrant colour and scent from leaf fall to bud burst.
Sponsorship details are here.
The team invite you to sponsor them towards the Friends’ next target, which is raising money for the shrubs, perennials and bulbs, Twelve camellia sasanquas will cost £300, three mature magnolia loebneri cost £220 each, and 6600 snowdrop bulbs cost £1050.Albert Bridge Closing
On Monday 15th February the Kensington and Chelsea Council are closing Albert Bridge to motor traffic for major refurbishment. The work is expected to take 18 months, but Park users will still be able to walk across. more...
Sign for All Seasons
Within the frozen Park today,
A ”caution” sign was half-witted.
Warning of ice was quite OK.
Why “No BBQs permitted”?
Please those on duty another day,
Before warnings are transmitted,
By signs or any other way,
Use words that are better fitted.
Philip Wright, January 2010
I have a sign to warn of ice
Because to fall would not be nice
Oh where to put it, what to do
Oh here's a sign, No BBQ
On which I'll mount it, by the gate
Not centred, quite deliberate.
It may bemuse, it may well rile?
I hope, at least, it made you smile.
replies Jerry Birtles, Park Manager
Popular with Photographers
The Park is always popular with photographers and websites are popping up where their work can be seen, such Flickr...