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Photo Competition
Share your photographs of Mycenae Gardens in our friendly competition, judged four times a year. Two categories, adults and under-18s, and winning photos are displayed around the gardens.
News
News, updates, and stories from the gardens
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Sunday, 23 August 2026
ParksFest 26: Sunnyday Sunday
Join us at Mycenae House and Gardens for live music, children’s activities, a nature trail, arts and crafts, dance performances and wellbeing activities.
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15 August 2026
Calling all amateur photographers
A new monthly photography competition for images of the Gardens, with categories for adults and junior members. No prizes, but selected photos are displayed around the gardens.
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6 August 2026
Big News for Mycenae Gardens!
The National Lottery Community Fund has awarded £18,704 for ‘Mycenae Gardens – a garden for all’, a 19-month project to make the gardens more accessible and inclusive.
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9 May 2026
Scouts return for their Environmental badge
The 40th Greenwich Scouts Group joined us again, building more dead hedging, litter picking and weeding in the oases.
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April 2026
Betting on Hedges
Volunteers have created new living and dead hedges, adding native plants and valuable shelter for wildlife.
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31 January 2026
£2,000 from The People’s Postcode Lottery
A Grass Roots grant of £2,000 will fund live hedging as a wildlife corridor between two layers of dead hedging.
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January 2026
Mycenae Gardens receives an “Advancing” award
Our community gardening work has been recognised by RHS London in Bloom’s It’s Your Neighbourhood scheme.
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12 April 2025
Scouts dig over the wildlife meadow
The 40th Greenwich Scouts Group spent the day preparing and reseeding the wildlife meadow, and clearing brambles from the wildlife area.
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7 January 2025
The Big Garden Birdwatch 2025
We are joining the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch at our volunteering day on Sunday 26 January, 11:00 to 13:00. Just turn up on the morning to take part.
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21 December 2024
£1,500 from the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association
A grant of £1,500 from the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association will start our project to bring more colour to the planting.
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5 December 2024
Bulbs for London donation
The gardens have been chosen for a box of bulbs under the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association’s Bulbs for London scheme.
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27 November 2024
Plans for the future
The committee has drawn up plans for the future of the Gardens and is seeking community grants to realise them. Volunteers are warmly welcomed to help.
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4 November 2024
£950 from the Veolia Sustainability Fund
A grant of £950 from the Veolia Sustainability Fund will start our project to bring more colour to the planting.
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19 October 2023
2023 AGM
A new Chair, a reinvigorated committee and fresh plans, plus naturalist Joe Beale on his recent survey of the birds and bugs of Mycenae Gardens. Join us on 30 October 2023.
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23 June 2023
Joe Beale's ecologist survey is now available
Joe Beale's ecologist survey of Mycenae Gardens has been finalised and is now available to the public as a downloadable PDF.
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3 March 2023
Join in our Winter Action Day
Come and help set up the gardens for the season on Saturday 11 March: pruning, dead-hedge repair and willow barriers. Bring gloves; biscuits provided.
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March 2023
Winter Action Day Report
Community volunteers came together for winter maintenance, planting, and path care.
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February 2023
The New Committee
An update introducing the latest committee and the work ahead for the gardens.
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23 September 2022
A last hurrah, before we disappear?
The September AGM was inquorate and has been adjourned to 18 October, with a dissolution meeting if too few come forward. Plus a morning of light work in the gardens on 15 October.
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16 May 2022
The Mycenae Arboretum
Friday 6 May was a fine day for a Tree Party celebrating the Mycenae Arboretum. Thirty-five tree species are now labelled, with help from Greenwich Tree Officers.
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Friday, 15 February 2020
AGM and Wildlife Talk
A look back at the annual meeting and a wildlife talk for supporters.
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Friday, 15 February 2020
Bird Watching Tour and Talk
An engaging guided tour of the bird species in Mycenae Gardens and the Woodland Dell.
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