How Sprout Up is helping to Beautify Balham
Recently we were delighted to hear from Seonaid and Rose at Sprout Up, offering to help us re-home leftover plants from the…
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Beautify Balham
Striving for a greener, cleaner and more beautiful Balham.
Recently we were delighted to hear from Seonaid and Rose at Sprout Up, offering to help us re-home leftover plants from the…
Continue Reading How Sprout Up is helping to Beautify Balham
For the first time since the creation of the Balham in Bloom competition in June2020, Beautify Balham hosted a half-day festival featuring…
Climate change is a scary notion. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could discover ways of taking direct action? France, Paris, 2022-12-14.…
Damien Gayle, journalist at The Guardian newspaper, has published an article that describes how new research suggests green space provides a significant…
Our third Balham in Bloom competition was yet another wonderful celebration of the beautiful gardens of Balham and the gardening skill of…
October has now ended, taking with it the last of the summer’s heat.With the change of seasons comes a different set of…
Beautify Balham has been working alongside Desirée Abrahams from Global Action Plan and Graham Peterson from Greener Jobs Alliance to monitor the…
Have you ever considered all the rainwater that falls on your roof and gets funnelled away to the drains? No, I hadn’t…
Continue Reading Why you should install a water butt in your garden
When thinking about the word pollinator we tend to think of the fuzzy bumblebee, so it is amazing to realise that there…
Armed with forks and trowels and wearing Beautify Balham hi-vis vests, together we are going to continue the wonderful work started by…
Beautify Balham held the presentation of prizes for our Balham in Bloom 2022 runners up and winners on Saturday 25th June 2022…
We are incredibly excited for the culmination of this year’s Balham in Bloom competition – with our presentations of prizes on Saturday…
No matter how small your front garden is, with careful planning you can make it a beautiful and pollution-busting space. A front…
We are thrilled to announce that Jean Millar and Justine McNeil of the Beautify Balham team have been nominated for a Tooting…
Continue Reading Beautify Balham Nominated for a Tooting Heroes Award
Not many of us relish the idea of digging a bed in our garden or plot. No matter how big or small…
As International Dawn Chorus Day approaches, on Sunday May 1st, this article reflects on some of the birds that may enliven our…
‘Living Pillars’ are making their appearance around London but you may be asking yourself, what are they exactly? Living Pillar™ Spring Foxlgloves…
March is the harbinger of spring. We notice signs of life in our flower beds, tree pits and on the commons. Snowdrops…
So many of the lovely Victorian houses in Balham are being returned to a modern-day version of their former glory, undergoing a…
May I ask you a delicate question?How many bin bags do you put out your front door each week? The Bin Bag…
A wren spotted locally Barbara is one of the guides who leads bird-walks on Wandsworth Common. For more details see the Friends…
Kirsten Botting, amateur gardener, local community champion, and Beautify Balham committee member discusses her pet hate – artificial grass. Over the past…
Continue Reading Artificial Grass or Real Grass? Don’t Fake It!
What is composting?Composting is the conversion of biodegradable, organic matter into compost. Raw vegetable or fruit waste, garden waste, and shredded paper…
Autumn is officially here and sadly the days are quickly getting shorter. With the recent downpour the ground is wet and perfect…
Continue Reading Planting in Autumn: Now is the Perfect Time for Bulbs
Saturday 26th June was in the diary way back in January for our first ever Balham in Bloom competition. Now that day…
Last Saturday Beautify Balham had another great turn out for our monthly litter pick, with about 30 volunteers turning up to clean…
Continue Reading One Saturday: 23 Bags Of Litter… Here’s What We Found
I often wonder what people think about their front gardens. They are a valuable bit of real estate, but are often overlooked…
The vast majority of London homes have front gardens and they used to be the pride and joy of residents. Often they…
I am originally from a small town in Worcestershire, which tends to mean that you aren’t too far from rolling fields, forests…
Continue Reading Balham In Bloom To Create The Balham Floral Boom
Balham Street Gardeners was started during the first lockdown with the objective to encourage neighbours to work together to transform our street…
Continue Reading Lockdown Silver Linings (Or Should We Say Green Linings?)
Balham and Tooting are vibrant places to live but we do sometimes struggle with littering, fly-tipping and a lack of green spaces.…
Continue Reading Meet Jean Millar, Founder of Beautify Balham
Children aged 3-7 are encouraged to take part in activities at home, to learn all about litter and recycling, as part of the Wandsworth…
As part of a recent campaign, here at Regatta we wanted to look in-depth at the UK litter Crisis. After gaining insightful data from…
Continue Reading Is The UK On The Brink of a Face Mask Litter crisis?
