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Beeston in Bloom marks Leeds 400

Beeston in Bloom has commissioned local artist, Zoë Mitchell to paint a utility box near Holbeck Cemetery. The box commemorates this years’ 400-year anniversary of the Leeds Charte...

Beeston Festival 2026 in photos

The sun shone and the crowds descended in their thousands to Cross Flatts Park to enjoy Beeston Festival yesterday (27 June 2026). Revellers commented on the fantastic atmosphere a...

Get ready for Beeston Festival 2026

Beeston Festival returns to Cross Flatts Park on Saturday (27 June 2026) with organisers promising a park full of extraordinary delights. This will be the 31st edition of the festi...

Beeston charity amongst winners at Diversity Awards

Yorkshire charities and social enterprises have been celebrated at the region’s second Pride in Diversity Awards, held at Leeds’ First Direct Bank Arena, with Beeston’s Women’s Whi...

Beeston community picnic a great success

A huge thank you to everyone who came down to Cross Flatts Park for the community picnic organised by Beeston Hill Community Association last Sunday (7 June 2026). We had around 10...

A Week of Blooms: Chelsea and Belgravia’s FREE floral trail begins

As the Chelsea Flower Show opens, the streets of Chelsea and Belgravia burst into colour with dazzling, free floral displays for all to enjoy.Read more ›

Community leaders honoured at Believe In Beeston culture show

Residents, community leaders, performers, and dignitaries came together on Sunday (31 May 2026) for the ISSE Believe In Beeston Culture Show and Beeston Bangladeshi Community Excel...

South Leeds youth group wins Global Learning Award

Beeston’s youth-led climate action group, Green Futures is celebrating recognition at the Global Learning Awards ceremony in Leeds for successfully championing young people’s voice...

Award-winning sensory garden designed by Leith resident opens in Victoria Park

The garden, which won a four award at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Flower Show, is inspired by Scotland’s links to Scandinavia

Bees, butterflies and blooming roadsides as TfL expands wildflower verges

A programme that began as a small pilot on the A40 and North Circular has grown into one of London’s largest biodiversity initiatives.Read more ›

Oxford organisation to get wildflower makeover worth more than £2,000

An Oxford organisation is set to receive a wildflower landscape makeover by Blenheim Estate Homes in collaboration with Wildflower Co.

Wild Life: Butterflies and moths around Elland Road

Between 17 July – 9 August is the Big Butterfly Count. This is a citizen science project that asks the public to spend 15 minutes in a sunny spot counting the butterflies and moths...

Green London: Bloomsbury's Secret Gardens

Here's a view of Montague Street Gardens, which is normally a private secret garden hidden behind buildings in Bloomsbury, near the British Museum. I visited for London Open Garden...

Holbeck ‘Skyline Park’ project wins international award

The Holbeck Viaduct Project has won a prestigious Pineapple Award, often described as the “Oscars of place-making,” at the 2026 Festival of Place. The project, which aims to transf...

How to help bees thrive in your garden this summer

Kate Titford of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) finds out why we need to go wild for bees

Beeston scout leader celebrates special award

Local Scout leader Heather Forster was presented with a special award to mark her service over many years. Heather leads the Cubs and is Group Lead Volunteer for the 1st South Leed...

Wholesaler brings storytelling to new RHS Flower Show

New Covent Garden Market (NCGM) plant wholesaler Ilo Bloom has teamed up with event florist Plants By There to create a Gold Medal winning installation at the first-ever Royal Hort...

Gold medal for Wexford plant nursery at Bord Bia Bloom Festival - ‘We’re really delighted’

Blackrock shines for Entente Florale judges

Louth seaside village sparkled in sunshine

Newtongrange’s top gardeners to be crowned at centenary celebrations

Newtongrange is set to burst into bloom this summer as the annual garden competition returns to the Midlothian village. And this year the achievements of green-fingered locals will...

Manchester Flower Festival 2026 gears up for bloom this weekend with full floral trail unveiled

This year's festival will take on a Green Manchester theme

Garden angels: The green-fingered communities turning neglected spaces into urban oases

All across London, a city where a back garden is a luxury and allotment waiting lists are endless, locals are adopting unloved, neglected pockets of land and transforming them into...

Gorgeous gardens go on show in Oxford in Bloom

READERS shared our despair at the loss of so many beautiful gardens in Oxford and elsewhere

Norwich diocese buzzing with new biodiversity scheme

BEES are to benefit from a partnership between Norwich diocese and a social enterprise in a project to make “a meaningful contribution to local biodiversity”. The Bumblebee Projec...