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At 12.30pm on November 8, Petworth Community Garden celebrated receiving the ‘Tree of Trees’ with the planting of a Silver Birch tree.
Lady Emma Barnard was also at the garden on the day to provide a few words celebrating the achievement.
As a nationwide initiative created to mark the Platinum Jubilee, the Queen’s Green Canopy was due to conclude in December – the end of the Jubilee year. However, as the official tree planting season in the United Kingdom is from October to March, the initiative will now be extended to include the full tree planting season, beginning in October 2022 and concluding in March 2023.
Following the wishes of the initiative’s Patron, His Majesty The King, The Queen’s Green Canopy initiative will be extended to the end of March 2023 to give people the opportunity to plant trees in memoriam to honour Her Majesty.
Petworth Community Garden started from humble roots 17 years ago, teaching locals on low incomes to ‘grow your own’ organic fruit and vegetables, with the key ethic to be accessible to all.
Over the years the project has grown by the community for the community, and now runs ‘Learn and Grow’ Tuesday, ‘Men’s Shed’ Wednesdays, ‘Thriving Thursdays’, ‘Plot to Plate cookery’, ‘Stepping Stones to work’ and ‘Jammy Dodgers’ preserve making sessions.
The have developed and grown over the years, creating wheelchair accessible; along with sensory and wildlife gardens and ponds, and taken on a new allotment and polytunnel for the Sussex Community Foundation funded ‘Living larder’ project.
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