Stories From the garden
Looking back on 2022
As we approach the end of 2022 and the darkest days of the year, we enter into a natural time to pause and reflect. Last week we held our winter away day and came together as a team to look back on our work. There were so many individual and collective highlights to the year, with the overriding one being a sense of togetherness and appreciation for what each and everyone brings. For me this year has been a year of moving, transitioning and coming together.
NAVIGATING A NEW CHAPTER
When Martina passed the baton of ‘barge mama’ on to me earlier in the year, I remember feeling both excited and daunted. Although I grew up by the water, I had no experience of living or working on a boat; this was as much new territory for me as it was for Global Generation.
Growing Techniques at the Story Garden
As the winter sets in, the garden slows down; trees lose their leaves, plants hunker down or die back, there’s a crispness to the air, a glow to the sun, new birds appear and some start for the south.
RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival - July 2022
This year we are delighted to have showcased a piece of our inner city oasis at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival, the world-renowned flower show. We wanted to inspire visitors to reimagine what the Story Garden feels like, with the different elements and layers of stories that are created in the garden. Built for, and by, the local community.
A DRAGON EMERGES AT PHOENIX COURT
The spirit of the ancient river flows through our environment, connecting and weaving threads of experience from across the community, calling along the banks to bridge distant shores and differences, bringing people together through the sharing of stories. As the sun starts to warm the earth in spring, the sleeping dragon awakens and roars life into our tales and mysteries, and the world comes into life and light.