Resources to collect
Collect the resources useful to you at monthly Kingston Green Drinks (see TTK Events), Save the World Club at The Circulatory, The Hive, Kingston Environment Centre, or from your local library:
- A leaflet on wild-life-friendly gardening for people wanting to make a start on wilding
- Window “clings” for people with wild-life-friendly gardens
-142 Lower Ham Road doorstep (photo on right, signs = cable-ties in l h box (open with care!)
- Watch this space for more
Or print your own
We recognise that participants in Kingston WildWays have differing needs, so we are publishing pdfs of some of our signageand fliers so that you can choose and print off the shapes and sizes that best suit your space and needs:
- 10 Tips to Make your Garden Friendly to Wildlife
Signage recognising Kingston's wilder green spaces - gardens, parks, green verges, riversides, woodlands, fields... There are two versions in this pdf - so scroll down the page to choose the one that suits you or your printer best, and print in the right size for your notice board or context.
- RSPB’s Nature Prescriptions: connecting to nature to boost health and wellbeing
- Nature and mental health - Mind
- The World Health Organisation on our dependence on natural eco-systems and the benefits of biodiversity
Biodiversity
- Kingston Council on Biodiversity and its Biodiversity Action Plan
- Nature Towns & Cities - a coalition of organisations committed to bringing the benefits of nature and green space to everyone in the UK
- Championing nature | Grow Wild | Kew
- CPRE London on the London Tree Ring project
- National Park City London
- Buglife’s B-Lines
- Growing tips for green gardeners, TTK’s useful sources of ideas and advice on sustainable and wildlife-friendly gardening, food-growing, community gardening...
- Royal Horticultural Society
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‘Bee buffets’: pollinator pathways turning drab alleys into insect havens: corridors of nectar-rich plants encourage pollination and brighten up city streets at the same time
Planning issues/background/context
- Environment Bill 2021 which includes the Local Nature Recovery Strategy https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/environment-and-climate-change/parks-green-spaces-and-biodiversity/local-nature-recovery-strategy?ac-188029=188026
- CPRE London guidance on Residential streets: 12 design elements
- Kingston Council’s Climate Emergency Declaration in June 2019, something all Council departments and contractors should take into account, ensuring that their actions and decisions do not worsen the climate and nature crises, but instead help to improve the local natural environment and mitigate climate change.
Places to visit - see examples of wilding and wild-life-friendly mowing at
- Kew Gardens
- Wakehurst
- Richmond Park
- Kingston riverside: Queen’s Promenade and North Kingston to Teddington
- Tolworth Court Farm
- Local Open Garden days
- Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley...