Two Trees Community Garden, September 2026
We are currently looking for more people to get involved and help our garden community grow. Whether you have lots of gardening experience or have never grown anything before, volunteers of all abilities and backgrounds are welcome.
You can help grow food, share your skills, support others, or simply enjoy being part of the garden community. Every helping hand makes a difference.
If you’re interested in growing at Two Trees Community Garden or would like to use the space, pop into Hollingdean Community Centre for more information.
You can also email Polly at hollclime@hotmail.com, who is also part of Growing Hollingdean.
Come along, get involved and help Two Trees grow!
Growing food, friendships and community together
Two Trees Community Garden is a shared space for neighbours to grow plants, vegetables and flowers, and enjoy the harvest together.
It is a place to learn, meet, share and enjoy, a welcoming space where people can connect with their neighbours and take part in gardening and community activities.
The garden is also a place to enjoy the wildlife, peace and quiet, take a break from everyday life, and get your hands into the soil. Whether you are an experienced gardener or just starting out, everyone can enjoy being part of the garden and helping it grow.
Two Trees Community Garden is more than a place to grow vegetables, it is a place to grow community.
See below map on how to enter Two Tree Community Garden.
Latest Activities
Volunteers plant new Rhubarb Bed, Summer 2026
Volunteers have transformed the old compost area into a new rhubarb (Rheum × hybridum) bed, making good use of the rich, well-established soil. Manure was added to enrich the area, and the ground was levelled, with a dead hedge creating a boundary at one end. Rhubarb is technically a vegetable, even though we mostly use its delicious stalks in puddings – yummy! For more information on growing, cultivating and harvesting rhubarb, see the Royal Horticultural Society’s rhubarb growing guide. Please help yourself and for neighbours leaving some for others. Thank you to the volunteers involved.
Mel planting up the vegetable beds a bit differently this year, 2026
Pathway weeding, levelling and adding woodchip, Spring 2026
New Rhubarb Bed Spring 2026
A special thank you to Dave for all his hard work and efforts watering the garden. Every bit of help makes a difference, and any small amount of time or support is always very welcome.
Tavistock Down, Hollingdean, Brighton, 2025
Our fabulous Jerusalem Artichokes (aka Sunchokes, aka Helianthus Tuberosus) grow very well in one of our raise beds, enjoying the tall yellow flowers in the summer and eating roots in the winter.
Our tasty redcurrants are ready to pick and eat, June to July, please help yourself.
Herbs and tomatoes during the Summer and Autumn are here for you to pick.
Thank you to Carl Evans and co for our beautiful walls
Thank you to Carl Evans Street Art and the many local helpers who create this spectacular mural. Thank you to Jo-seph for organising it all and to Hollingdean Residents Association and B&H Housing Department for agreeing the funding, see details on our blog here. We look forward to seeing you there.
Join Mel and other locals at the community garden
Grow in Your Neighbourhood Garden, Tavistock Down
Mel started growing at Two Trees Community Garden in 2014, when she lived with her family in the Tavistock Down flats. Helping neighbours, Mel wanted a shared space where local people could grow food, connect with one another, or simply enjoy spending time outdoors, together or alone.
Mel and her neighbours planted vegetables, herbs and fruit, encouraging everyone to help themselves and enjoy the harvest. The garden is a welcoming space where people can come together, share their knowledge and enjoy the rewards of growing food.
During lockdown, when the garden produced larger quantities of fresh produce, crops it was donated to the local Bright Store project, helping to supplement people’s diets with fresh, organic greens.
Today, everyone is welcome to get involved. Come along, lend a hand, grow something, meet your neighbours and enjoy the many benefits and satisfaction that growing your own food can bring.
Come and grow here!
New fence and round bog garden and Two Trees sign, February 2025.
How to enter Two Tree Community Garden
How to find Two Trees Community Garden @TavistockDown
The gate entrance is accessible via south end of Tavistock Down, behind the play park, next to the turning to Thompson Road or use what3words, panel.fallen.trash.
A quiet space to enjoy nature at Two Tree’s Community Garden
Everyone is welcome to garden, grow, eat, learn, sit or chat.
Two Trees Community Garden Hibernaculum
Two Trees Community Garden Hibernaculum was built by Froglife and volunteers in 2024.
Winter in the Community Garden
Pruning of Redcurrants in January / February and gentle weeding all year round. A peaceful place to be away from traffic and hassle of life.
Mel pulling out the grass and weeds in the garlic bed.
Two Trees compost made in 2023 to 2024
New composting area at Two Trees, March 2025
The black compost bin is perfect for non cooked vegetables and fruit peelings, paper tea bags, coffee grounds, egg shells, toilet rolls, egg cartons etc. Scraps can be dropped into the black bin and the worms, slugs, snails will break this down into free compost. Its magic, see how its done here!
Every little bit helps, please add yours.
Two Trees Community Garden 2014
Mel and neighbours planted two olive trees in Spring 2014 that are the entrance to the Community garden. Harvesting olives in 2025. A view of the very bare gap between the gardens between Tavistock Down and The Crestway.
Two Tree Community Garden was started in 2008 with funding from the Estate Development Budget (EDB)
A large grant was provided to improve and develop the area rather than demolishing the existing shed.
The shed was kept and repurposed as storage for the community garden, making use of the existing building rather than removing it.
The project included the creation of four raised garden beds, where residents were given tomatoe plants to grow and water. It also included a children’s playground, providing a welcoming space for local children, families and residents.
The EDB funding helped transform the area into a community garden and shared community space while retaining and making practical use of the existing shed. Help make it beautiful space.
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