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Incredible Edible Lambeth Gardeners and Cllr Claire Holland stand in the vegetable garden at Max Roach Park to launch 2019 Gardening Awards 'Blooming Lambeth'

Blooming Lambeth – entries now open for garden and growing awards

Nominations needed now for Blooming Lambeth – tell us which gardening and growing projects should win prizes for making Lambeth a greener and more connected community

Children and adults created 4 living walls at Triangle Playground, including on e with flowers in brightly-coloured metal pots on a trellis

Green our city with £5,000 ‘Our Space’ Awards

Apply by Monday March 25 for up to £5K ‘Our Space’ Awards to create sustainable green spaces in Lambeth.

Men & women firefighters chill out on the rooftop garden

Blooming Lambeth winners: Community spaces

Incredible Edible Lambeth (IEL) and Lambeth Council teamed up for a second year of ‘Blooming Lambeth’ Awards - with £100 prizes in recognition of some of the best community...

Boy with tray of herbs - part of Clapham's leaf project where local schools not only grow food but run a market stall to sell it

Blooming Lambeth winners: Innovation

Lambeth’s gardening community chose three joint winners of the Blooming Lambeth ‘Innovation’ Award - mixing traditional and modern organic methods, teaching primary children the food chain story from seeds...

Banana-leaf type plants in Joint winner of 20187 Blooming Lambeth Awards for best garden on a housing estate - Blenheim Gardens

Blooming Lambeth winners: Best community gardens on a Lambeth housing estate

Blenheim Estates community garden and Rosendale’s community orchard were voted joint winners in the Lambeth Council/Incredible Edible Lambeth 2018 ‘Blooming Lambeth’ category ‘Best Community garden on a housing estate’....

Hedgehogs need to hibernate without being disturbed - leave a bit of the garden or compost heap with a pile of untidy leaves

Doing our bit for Lambeth’s wildlife this winter

Beetles, bats, butterflies and hedgehogs spend summer eating garden pests and pollinating our gardens and green spaces – so help them hibernate safely in the winter.

Four road sweepers in yellow high-viz jackets, sweeping leaves into piles ready to be loaded onto truck.

Rising to the challenge of fallen leaves

Lambeth Council's street cleaning services partners Veolia take on 28 roadsweepers and additional vehicles every autumn to help keep your streets clear of autumn leaves. Just five trees can...

Children playing in Myatts Fields - one of Lambeths 13 medal winners in London iMyatts Fields - one of Lambeths 13 medal winners in London in Myatt's Fields splash fountain - one 0f 13 London in Bloom medal winners in 2018

Lambeth scores higher than ever for London in Bloom

Lambeth was awarded a 2018 London in Bloom Silver-Gilt (one below Gold) for the overall quality of our parks, community gardening projects, local business participation in the environment and...