A Palestinian Garden in Kings Cross London*

Let’s make a Palestinian Garden at the Calthorpe Project in Kings Cross London

The Calthorpe Community Garden is in Camden and is a community centre that over the last decade has had strong connections with CADFA and hosted many CADFA events.

Nine years ago, a small olive sapling arrived at the Calthorpe transported on the plane in a ruck sack from Abu Dis, Palestine. Until recently it lived in a container where it grew happily. However, it needed more space to grow and earlier this year our volunteers planted it in the ground and gave it a new home with plenty of space around it.

It looks a bit lonely all by itself. Wouldn’t it be lovely to have it surrounded by indigenous plants and flowers from Palestine and we can have a special CADFA garden here in the heart of London?

We are asking women travelling from Palestine in March to bring seeds with them, so we can sow them together in the greenhouse and they can be planted out when the weather gets warmer. Here are some examples of the beautiful flowers native to Palestine.

What about lovely blue lupins from Jennin   Rosa Rogosa Poppy	Jerusalem buttercup Star of Bethlehem

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