A fine example of everything we have to offer. Working with Essex County Council, Essex & Suffolk Community Partnership and Greater Anglia: Phase one of our work at Alresford involved installing our debut railway station orchard. When asked what we could do with a narrow strip of grass running along the length of a platform …
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Clacton-on-Sea Railway Station, Essex
Here at the Bee Friendly Trust, we love collaboration and we also aim to inspire the next generation. So, imagine our joy when installing planters at Clacton-on-Sea Railway Station, to find our team of helpers were children from a local primary school. The sun shone as we taught them about pollination and the importance of …
Great Bentley Railway Station, Essex
Great Bentley was the first station in Essex that we worked on with the Essex & South Suffolk Community Rail Partnership. We transformed the old gardens at the station, built a planter, and worked with children from neighbouring Great Bentley School to fill the planter with pollinator friendly flowers.
Loughton Railway Station, Essex
We brought an abandoned bed at Loughton Railway Station in Essex back to life. Built of concrete, it is part of the original station design dating back to 1940. As well as replanting, we also worked on the little pond in the centre of the planter, to attract pond life back to the station.
Leyton Underground Station, London
A group of local enthusiasts approached for help with this project. We assisted with the clearing out of long neglected beds and also planted a now thriving small fruit orchard. The station is currently in the process of being rebuilt with a new accessible entrance. New flower beds and planters will be part of the …
Woodford Underground Station, London
Underground in Bloom winners thanks to our collaboration with Transport for London staff at the station and our gardening team. The station beds have been transformed and a bespoke bug hotel added.
Newbury Park Underground Station, London
Our gardening team did some stellar work clearing the 35m long bed and bank at Newbury Park. Once a well-tended garden, but left forgotten, we cleared out the weeds and created a heritage variety fruit orchard along the length of the station. The bank behind was already an important and much-used wildlife habitat so simply …
Highbury & Islington Underground Station, London
We were privileged to be asked to create a planter in memory of Bill Little, the popular flower seller who brightened up people’s lives with his stall at Highbury Corner for three decades. Our floral installation seemed a fitting tribute to someone so in love with blooms. His son Andy, his youngest sister Pauline and …
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Snaresbrook Underground Station, London
We have brought the original station garden back to life. It was first planted in 1896 and now looks as good as ever, thanks to our gardening team and a stalwart group of local volunteers. If you stop be, keep an eye out for the stag beetle colony, amongst the tree roots.
West Brompton Railway Station, London
London Overground and London Underground meet here and this has been a joint project with both. We have built large planters on the District Line platform and created a series of raised beds from scaffolding planks on the Overground Platform.