Dr. Najma Dharani coordinated the planting once more and Dr. Mark Nicholson (Brackenhurst Botanic Garden, Limuru) brought in 134 rare and indigenous shrubs and did the tree labelling. Vishy Talwar, of the Flowered Earth Ltd & Vice-Chair of the Kenya Horticulture Society donated 30 red or pink Pentas lanceolata while Sheela Shah of the Really Useful Landscape Company […]
County staff reclaimed land at the entrance of City Park and invited Friends of City Park to partner with them about what to plant in the area. FoCP consulted experts and the consensus was to create a model indigenous forest of indigenous trees, shrubs, grass with a verge of wildflowers to attract butterflies. Luckily FoCP […]
On Saturday 29th June Catherine Ngarachu, the Friends of City Park Chair, led in a cleanup and the planting of the pollinator garden, at the enclosure housing the Boscowen Collection. Nairobi County has kindly allocated part of the enclosure to be used for local flowering plants, which are most attractive to the bees & butterflies. […]
Are you handy with garden tools? Are you good with media relations? As a volunteer led organisation we are always in need of general and special interest volunteers. We will be updating our listing below, as the need arises, but if you have interesting ideas, please do write to us about it. Social media marketing […]
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