The next Mega Skip Day takes place this Sat, 27th April from 9am-12pm with seven locations across #Wandsworth (including in #Balham ):
More information via Wandsworth Council here:
wandsworth.gov.uk/rubbish-and-re…

Our friends at Sunnyhill Nature Garden are having a #Spring celebration to showcase recent improvements to the #garden and offer free, fun #nature inspired activities to the #community 💚
Free
No Booking required

Sitting here, listening to the birds serenade the bluebells as they grow, while a fallow deer stag watches me intently in the trees ahead.

Those who know me know I need this now. It is the most glorious feeling

Who loves an old map? #ThrowbackThursday for this week and a Bacon's 1900 Map of #Streatham #Furzedown #Balham #Tooting #TulseHill
#Oldmaps #Victorianmap #LocalHistory #Streatham History

.@thetootingcommon on Instagram has, for nearly two years, taken one photo (nearly) every day from one spot on #Tooting Common, recording the change in the seasons.

Check out instagram.com/thetootingcomm… for all of their images!

@tootingcommon Balham Newsie

Cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera) in Streatham Woods The FOTC #Tooting #Balham #Streatham #springtime

Wild Apple flowering by Tooting Bec Lido #Tooting #Balham #Streatham #springtime

Prunus Padus (Bird Cherry) blooming on the Triangle #Tooting #Balham #springtime

Beautiful bluebells are blooming in Graveney Woods on #Tooting Common!

'As the whitening hawthorn only hears the heart beat of the earth'
(Betjeman)

My first hawthorn flowers of the year 💚🤍💚

Following the AGM on 7th May 2024, John W Brown will give an illustrated talk on The Duke's of Bedford, the Streatham connection #StrreathamHistory
This talk is dedicated to Graham Gower who sadly passed away in March 2024

Gloomy, miserable and wet out there. So here's some summer green.

Limes leafing The FOTC

Snake's Head Fritillaries (Fritillaria meleagris) The FOTC (location 🤫)

'About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow' (Housman)

A wild English cherry, in Bagley wood #Oxford - an ancient woodland which has only had 2 owners in the last 1000 years 🤍💙🤍
#blueMonday #Spring

A beech clad in velvet ruffles for #thicktrunktuesday
One of those astonishing root structures that looks like its about to take its tree off to pastures new💚

'In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours'
(A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Cowslips displaying Shakespeare's 'rubies'💎 #ShakespeareSunday 💛💕💛

Absolutely no discernible difference between a five million year old fossilised oak leaf found in St Bauzile, France and a five month old oak leaf from our woodland

CHARITY Plant Sale! Local resident & 5-time Chelsea Flower Show award-winner Anthony de Grey is once again opening up his beautiful garden for a charity plant sale at his home at 54 Abbotswood Road, SW16 1AW on Thur 16th, Fri 17th & Sat 18th May, 9am-5pm each day. #Balham

TOMORROW IN #TOOTING – 'Public Transport Comes To Tooting', a talk organised by tooting history and hosted by John Chilvers,

More info: tootinghistory.org.uk