Volunteers Replanting the Trough on Clerkenwell Green April 2022

From Clerkenwell Green Preservation Society (CGPS), we would like to once again say a huge thank you to Daron Pike and Erika Rosivatz, who help CGPS to maintain planting on Clerkenwell Green. It’s true to say that Clerkenwell Green would certainly look a lot duller without their incredible efforts.

The beautiful colours in the trough now also include some bright red and white flowers for St George’s Day, and this planting should hopefully see us through to October. These vibrant colours include the red of the geraniums, and the white-flowered ones are bacopa. Bacopa monnieri is a perennial, creeping herb native to the wetlands of southern and Eastern India, Australia, Europe, Africa, Asia, and North and South America. It is known by the common names water hyssop, Brahmi, thyme-leafed gratiola, herb of grace, and Indian pennywort.

We are hugely appreciative of these efforts since our dedicated volunteers help to keep our cogs turning, organise events, research parks and the green, comment on planning applications that threaten precious historic sites, and help share Clerkenwell history with new people.