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The Chelsea Fringe

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The first ever Chelsea Fringe Festival ran from May 19 until June 10, 2012, with 100 garden-related events and projects spread across London and beyond. Everything from community and guerilla gardening projects, to pop-up restaurants and shops, performances and art installations. We worked with hundreds of project organisers from this country and abroad, and thousands [...]

CHELSEA FRINGE 2013: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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Following the success of the first year of the Chelsea Fringe in 2012, we are now inviting submissions for the Chelsea Fringe 2013, which will run for 22 days across four weekends, from May 18 to June 9, 2013.

The countdown has started

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2012 was an auspicious year for the first ever Chelsea Fringe – with the spotlight of the world trained on London for the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics, the Fringe was a glorious celebration of something else we do very well in Britain: gardening. But while the London Olympics and the Jubilee were once in [...]

Suddenly last summer

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The cold winter nights are getting longer and as the still point of the turning year approaches, now seems a good moment to return to those magical three weeks in May and June, when the inaugural Chelsea Fringe burst onto the scene. Pulsating with first growth vigour and brimming with fresh ideas, the Chelsea Fringe [...]

Front gardens project returns for a second Chelsea Fringe outing

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When Naomi Schillinger was asked if she wanted to take part in last year’s Chelsea Fringe her initial feeling was that, with a book to finish and numerous other commitments, she wouldn’t have time.  But it turned out that the community vegetable growing project she was already running on her home street in Finsbury Park [...]

And we’re off…

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It was standing room only last night at the Garden Museum for the first general meeting of the Chelsea Fringe 2013. Despite the chill outside, the atmosphere inside the redundant church of St Mary at Lambeth was toasty warm – although this was perhaps down to the sheer body count as much as any conventional [...]

Registration is now open

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Registration for the Chelsea Fringe 2013 is now open.  Eagle-eyed visitors to this site may have spotted that the first event to have registered for this year’s Chelsea Fringe has been already been posted on this site (well-done to early-bird registrees, The Little Black Gallery).  If you are thinking about taking part in this year’s [...]

Park Life – but not as we know it

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Once a popular luncheon destination with local postal workers, Postman’s Park has long been a place in which to take time out from the hectic pace of city life and it's set to get even more tranquil during the Fringe.

The urban orchard with a twist

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As founder of the ecologically minded, not-for-profit, educational organisation, The Pop-Up Foundation (http://pop-up-foundation.org/), Paul Clarke (and his co-founder Alison Hall) are used to working in challenging locations – from setting up coffee growing projects in Uganda to nurturing inner city urban farms.  For Planting Ideas, the Foundation’s Chelsea Fringe project, they have chosen another potentially [...]

Gardens that stoop to conquer

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Gibraltar Terrace, on Chatham’s New Road was once the pride of Georgian Chatham, but today its pretty red brick façade looks out onto a starkly urban scene. This is the challenging terrain that Sandra Fowler and her fellow Full Frontal gardeners will be addressing on 19 May, when they hold a planting day that will transform this stretch of the A2 into a beacon of sustainable gardening.

Every dog will have his day

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Dogs make the perfect gardening companion – they usually take an active interest in whatever it is you’re planting, are appreciative of newly dug holes and – crucially – never question your judgment when it comes to trying out new colour combinations in the border.

Vienna is blumen marvellous

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The Austrian capital may be better known as "the City of Music" and famed for its devotion to the twin gods of patisserie and torrefaction but this summer the Viennese love of gardening will come to the fore as the city participates in the Fringe for the first time.

Get friendly with the Chelsea Fringe

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Volunteers are the life-blood of many an organization in this country and the Chelsea Fringe is no exception.

Gnomes & Gardens

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2013 may be the Chinese year of the Snake, but in gardening circles at least, it could more accurately be designated the Year of Gnome.

Bees under the bonnet

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Worn-out wellies, battered Belfast sinks, empty olive oil cans and broken buckets … most gardeners are well versed in the joys of container gardening and the art of recycling.

Colour me delicious

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London as seen through a forager’s eyes is a very different city to the one we think we know.

The Chelsea Fringe – a really app-ening festival

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The Chelsea Fringe has launched its very own App – a handy, portable, one-stop guide to everything that's happening in the 2013 Chelsea Fringe (May 18 - June 9).

Knit your own veg patch

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With the memory of last summer’s wash-out still all too clearly etched (or should that be water-marked?) on many veg growers’ memories, the good people at Battersea Flower Station garden centre have come up with a cunning wheeze to guarantee a harvest this year.

Gardening leave – in your lunch break

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A pop-up meadow planted in the heart of corporate London as part of the Chelsea Fringe is proving just the ticket for stressed out City workers.

An enticing office

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It’s all very well kitting your office out with the latest technology, supersonic broadband and a state of the art coffee machine, but what about a garden? Wouldn’t that be nice?
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