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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · 1d

Super excited to announce the launch of our new website 🤩

Take a look at this:

www.friendsofwandsworthpark.com

FoWP

Friends of Wandsworth Park

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · 12d

Nothing gold can stay

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost

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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · Aug 10

Henry’s lime (Tilia henryana)

Actually it’s Adrian’s and Barnaby’s 😉

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · Jul 27

Went all afoot in summer’s scalding heat

Henry VI 3: 5. 7. 18

#ShakespeareSunday

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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · Jun 12

So this year 60 people have adopted (#Befriended @arbassociation.bsky.social @ticl.me ) our 26 new trees 🌳 🌲 and are giving them extra water regularly over the summer

It’s possibly the loveliest thing we’ve ever seen 💚

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · Jun 29

In winter’s cold and summer’s parching heat,

Henry VI 2: 1.1.67

#ShakespeareSunday

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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · Jun 26

The grass on the field has gone yellow and dried out but you can see the difference our #treeFriends are making around the trees @wandsworthpark.bsky.social @ticl.me

💦🌳 👏🏼

The grass around the trees is greener than the grass between them - our tree waterers are doing a great job 👏🏼

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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · Jun 12

So this year 60 people have adopted (#Befriended @arbassociation.bsky.social @ticl.me ) our 26 new trees 🌳 🌲 and are giving them extra water regularly over the summer

It’s possibly the loveliest thing we’ve ever seen 💚

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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · May 27

It rained and suddenly our #wildflower #meadow is doing meadowy things 😍

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · May 11

In spring time, the only pretty ring time

As You Like It 5.3..11

#ShakespeareSunday

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Spring purple crocus display by Putney Rotary Club in Wandsworth Park

It’s a tribute to Rotary polio eradication initiative

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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · May 11

This must be the best #ShakespeareSunday quote ever to go with our #BefriendaTree #treewatering scheme in #WandsworthPark you launched at yesterday’s #Ecofair @fleuranderson.bsky.social @wandsworthpark.bsky.social

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · May 11

I have begun to plant thee, and will labour
To make thee full of growing.
M 1.4
#ShakespeareSunday

a tree with lots of green leaves is against a white background

ALT: a tree with lots of green leaves is against a white background

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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · May 11

This must be the best #ShakespeareSunday quote ever to go with our #BefriendaTree #treewatering scheme in #WandsworthPark you launched at yesterday’s #Ecofair @fleuranderson.bsky.social @wandsworthpark.bsky.social

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Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social · May 11

I have begun to plant thee, and will labour
To make thee full of growing.
M 1.4
#ShakespeareSunday

a tree with lots of green leaves is against a white background

ALT: a tree with lots of green leaves is against a white background

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · May 1

“There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in”

Leonard Cohen

Light filtering through the trees - the phenomenon called ‘Komorebi’

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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · Apr 28

Thank you @ticl.me 🙏

When we set up the scheme it was invaluable to number, list and map the trees for #befriending and watering with your iOS app

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We will attach the adopters names to the trees too as thanks to them and for posterity

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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · Apr 28

We’re excited to be launching our FREE Adopt-a-Tree Scheme #BefriendaTree as part of Urban Tree Festival 2025

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EcoFair - Featuring an opportunity to ‘Befriend (Adopt) a new Tree’ in Wandsworth Park for watering — Urban Tree Festival

We are running an EcoFair with a number of different ‘eco’ organisations featuring their stands, music, entertainment and hands on activities. Of note will be the launch of a new, volunteer, tree w...

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Wandsworth Cycling Campaign @wandsworthcycling.bsky.social · Apr 27

We’re excited to be at the Eco Fair 💚🚲
Come by to learn about our rides and our campaigns for a greener future for Wandsworth 👍

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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · Apr 27

#Ecofair Wandsworth Park

Saturday 10th May 12-4pm

Save the date … and the planet 🌍

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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · Apr 11

YOUR HELP NEEDED NOW - AND THIS SUMMER

26 fabulous new trees were planted this year 😍 …

without watering pipes 😳
without watering bags 😳
without mulch 😳

It hasn’t rained for a month 😳

Could YOU #BefriendATree ? (Details in ALT)

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Could you Adopt a Tree (it’s FREE) in Wandsworth Park and water it once a week with 2 litres of water?
We’re looking for 60 volunteers for a tree watering rota this Summer (starting NOW)
Contact: friendsofwandsworthpark@gmail.com
Thank you 🙏🏼

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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · Apr 10

So the play park is open again after rennovation …

What do you think of the new equipment?

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · Apr 5

When you’ve finished exercising in the park this year please empty any unused water from your flask around any staked tree 💦 🌳

Thank you 🙏

#treewatering #everydrophelps

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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · Mar 31

We’re liking the new low rope fence around the wildflower meadow 😍

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suzanneclimatee.bsky.social @suzanneclimatee.bsky.social · Mar 27

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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · Mar 31

This cherry is an old friend of ours and is looking stunning right now @wandsworthpark.bsky.social

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TiCL 🍃💚🍃 @ticl.me · Mar 9

Like trees bedash’d with rain—in that sad time

Richard III 1.2.165

#ShakespeareSunday

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Friends of Wandsworth Park @wandsworthpark.bsky.social · Mar 2

Definitely a feeling of Spring today in #WandsworthPark @wandsworthpark.bsky.social

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