Ginkgo Corner
Abundance London is holding an art event on Saturday 16 May to celebrate the ginkgo tree on Old Market Place, with two sessions running across the day at Ginkgo Corner and Chiswick Cinema
The first session runs from 11am to 1pm at Ginkgo Corner, the seating area opposite the old police station. Under the guidance of Tanya Saunders from Make+Paint, participants will create a golden ginkgo.
The second session, from 2pm to 4pm at Chiswick Cinema, will see participants add ‘tree’ characters from films to the artwork. Visitors can drop in to either session or both.
Ginkgo Corner opened in April last year, designed by landscape architect Luke Greysmith and led by the Chiswick Flower Market team. The project replaced a crumbling raised bed and a few struggling cordyline palms with new seating and pollinator-friendly planting around the existing ginkgo.
The seating area is now looked after by the Chiswick Flower Market team.
Ginkgo trees are among the oldest tree species on the planet, having first appeared more than 290 million years ago.
They are also unusually resilient: a number of ginkgos survived the atomic bomb at Hiroshima and went on to grow back.
The art project is a continuation of a familiar partnership. Tanya Saunders ran drop-in decorating sessions for Abundance London’s Butterfly Wall at Chiswick Police Station in autumn 2021, the temporary installation that covered the four-storey building with around 1,000 hand-painted butterflies and moths and 2,000 flowers contributed by local schools, care homes and residents.
Abundance London, founded in 2010 by Karen Liebreich MBE and Sarah Cruz, looks after more than 20 pocket gardens around Chiswick. Its other projects include the Chiswick Timeline mural under the railway bridge at Turnham Green Terrace and the W4th Plinth in the piazza alongside.
Organisers say young hands are especially welcome, though older volunteers can join too.
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