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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...

London in Bloom July 2018 judges see wildflower meadow on Clapham Common

London in Bloom 2018 – Lambeth at its Blooming Best

Lambeth Landscapes parks staff have been showing the imagination and flair people bring to our open spaces to visiting London in Bloom judges. Even though judging for 2018 just...

6 Good Gym runners in red kit in the gardens of South London Botanical Institute after helping move boxes of plant specimens downstairs to

South London Botanical Institute runs deeper roots into the Lambeth community

South London Botanical Institute (SLBI) have worked with Good Gym Lambeth’s runners and St Mungo’s homelessness charity to share the message of the power of plants.