gardening in hollingdean – Growing Hollingdean

Join Forest Gardeners on Sunday 21 December 2025, 10am – 12 pm in Hollingdean Park

17th Dec 2025

Join Forest Gardeners on Sunday 21 December 2025, 10am in Hollingdean Park, Growing Hollingdean volunteers — Growing Hollingdean volunteers admiring the Sharon Fruit Tree number 122 **on our map**

Get your boots on and join the volunteer Forest Gardeners on Sunday 21 December 2025, 10am-12pm in Hollingdean Park. We meet at the Lynchet Shed at 10am and wander up through Hollingdean Park to the Community Orchard and Forest Garden. Tools, gloves, refreshments and friendly support make this a lovely monthly gathering all round the year. Something for everyone to do. Children can join in too with a responsible adult.

Visit our new signs in Hollingdean Park, November 2025

Entrance Map , Forest Garden and Pond Sign installed in Hollingdean Park, December 2025 with the help of Growing Hollingdean Volunteers

Entrance Map , Forest Garden and Pond Sign installed November 2025

Growing Hollingdean have collaborated with Froglife and Brighton & Hove Food Partnership to make new growing and wildlife spaces in Hollingdean Park. New signs explain where these areas are and what you can find there. Thank you to all those volunteers involved in making this happen, we couldn’t do it without you!

Would you like to get involved in taking care of our trees, plants and wildlife in the park and Forest Garden? It is fun and friendly. Join us on 3rd Sunday morning of the month from 10am -12pm. Everyone welcome!

See Growing Hollingdean’s Forest Garden page here and Tree Map here,

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Join us for Wildflower Verge Cutting & Planting 2025

22nd Sep 2025

Join us for Wildflower Verge Cutting & Planting September 2025, Jon Growing Hollingdean volunteers. — *Mountfields Wildflower Verge*

Saturday 27 September, Mountfields Triangle, 10am-12pm, Rain or Shine!

Join the Growing Hollingdean volunteers for our annual wildflower meadow cutting on Saturday 27th September 2025. We’ll meet at 10am at the Growing Hollingdean shed on the corner of Brentwood Road and Lynchet Close to collect equipment (or bring your own), before walking down to the wildflower triangle behind the 50 bus stop at Mountfields and The Crestway (in pink). Together we’ll be cutting the meadow with shears and scythes, and planting wildflower plants and bulbs using trowels and gloves. Come along, lend a hand, and help care for our beautiful community wildflower meadow!

Free Event Hollingdean, Brighton this September 2025

“The wildflowers attract pollinators such as bees, flies, moths and flower beetles. Other insects and spiders soon follow, as well as larger predators…” Says Natural History Museum. These wildflowers provide vital food and habitat for Hollingdean’s swifts, buzzards, blackbirds, sparrows and more—so come along, lend a hand, and see what insects you can spot while helping care for our community meadow!

Join us for Wildflower Verge Cutting & Planting September 2025, Growing Hollingdean volunteers.

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Hollingdean’s Tree Guardians will meet next on Sunday 5th January 2025 at the Lynchet Close shed, 10am-12noon. Come and join in?

3rd Jan 2025

Join our Tree Guardians for some fresh air, light tree maintenance and a smile. Everyone is welcome, training is available too!

Growing Hollingdean volunteers planted Crocus bulbs at our last meet up on 1st December 2024

Growing Hollingdean volunteers seen planting 1st December 2024

Tree Guardian volunteers got together to plant four thousand crocus bulbs in the wild flower patch bank in Hollingdean Park on Sunday 1st December 2024. It was a very grey soggy morning but this didn’t stop the hardy 13 (+ 2 kids) in full weather outfits from having a giggle. We lifted the turf to drop in the crocus bulbs . Later that morning we scraped and raked the ground before sowing yellow rattle seed. Yellow rattle is parasitical on the grass roots and needs to be planted into exposed earth amongst grass roots. It is a wildflower that thins the grass and other wildflowers then also have a chance to flourish on a grassy bank.

These tiny little bulbs will hopefully make an amazing display in February, make sure you take time to wander past. Also pop up to the bog garden to see another four thousand crocus planted on the Hollingbury Hawks football pitch bank.

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Growing Hollingdean is a volunteer group of local residents that help develop community growing and wildlife spaces in the Hollingdean area

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