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Bloomin’ marvellous…

Posted in Rebecca Sycamore - Homeless Link on 21 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Day 2 for RHS members and they seem to love the natural look of our garden. Three deep at times and there were loads of positive comments and lots of interest in the story behind its creation and its sustainability. The Welcome Project from Ilford – Una and Ishmael – were first up yesterday followed [...]

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All that glitters…

Posted in Rebecca Sycamore - Homeless Link on 19 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Key Garden won silver today at the Chelsea Flower Show!
Several weeks ago, when I was still knee deep in co-ordinating who was coming to the show on which days and I hadn’t really comprehended the enormous task facing Paul Stone and all those who were about to help him make The Key a reality, [...]

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Adding the finishing touches to the garden

Posted in Rebecca Sycamore - Homeless Link on 15 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s pretty much the last day of set up at the Chelsea site and the Key Garden is almost complete.  We seem to be ahead of some of the other organisations, but perhaps it is my imagination.  There are lorries everywhere delivering plants and structures for the other gardens and general exhibitions.  There is a [...]

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Talking gardens and growing media interest

Posted in Rebecca Sycamore - Homeless Link on 8 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s Friday and after a short downpour this morning the sun is shining on Chelsea when I arrive on site. The garden is a hive of activity with vegetable patches being dug, the art and poetry being finished off and everywhere you look there are plants. On site the talk is of the other gardens [...]

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Mixing it up…

Posted in Rebecca Sycamore - Homeless Link, tagged , , , , on 5 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Day 4 on site and the garden is really starting to take shape, although with fork lift trucks and cement mixers at the moment it looks more like a building site than a garden!  Guys and girls from Shekinah Mission in Plymouth, Tyneside Cyrenians in Newcastle and St Giles Trust and St Mungo’s in London [...]

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A hive of activity

Posted in Rebecca Sycamore - Homeless Link, tagged , , on 30 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

After many months of planning, I’m a little nervous visiting the site today. Those nerves gave way to excitement as it was such a hive of activity. On the first full day you can already see the outline of the garden taking shape. The smiles on the faces and the pride in the voices when [...]

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People first

Posted in Rebecca Sycamore - Homeless Link, tagged , on 27 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’a the day before the site is to open so we can begin work on this amazing project and I am quietly petrified. I’m excited as well, of course, and energised by how enthusiastic and passionate everyone involved is. But still… today I am very conscious of the logistics of getting it all to work.
This [...]

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