Well, Readers, here is my mini-meadow window box, already to go to the East Finchley Festival tomorrow as part of the Friends of Coldfall Wood and Muswell Hill Playing Fields stall. We’ll be raffling two of the mini-meadows, but in the meantime we have a plant quiz, to see how many of the plants people can identify (there are clues too, so it should be pretty easy for even the most unbotanical to get a good result). I must confess that I’ve gotten very fond of my window box, and am thinking that I might knock some up for myself next year. The self-heal in particular has grown very well.

and look how cheery the rough hawkbit looks!

Plus the sorrel is full of seeds…

and, having blasted off the black aphids from earlier on this week with the hosepipe, the goatsbeard might actually flower with a bit of luck.

Anyhow, we have water testing and seed bomb making and the chance to sign up for some of our walks in Coldfall Wood. It promises to be quite a full-on day, but I’ll report back either tomorrow or on Tuesday, depending on how it all goes. It looks like a lovely sunny day, so fingers crossed that the Festival is a great success, especially after all the extraordinary hard work that people have put in to make sure that people enjoy themselves. See you on the other side!