Barnet Gate Wood is one of Chipping Barnet’s extraordinary but under-visited green assets – and if you go now you’ll find an incredible froth of purple rhododendron bloom.
Barnet’s hidden rhododendron spectacle
Author: Robin Bishop
May blossom celebrating 75 years of the Barnet Society
May 2020 isn’t just the 75th anniversary of VE Day – it’s also exactly 75 years since the Barnet Society was founded. As if in celebration, the Hawthorn trees planted on Whitings Hill by Society volunteers 25 years ago have been decked in glorious blossom.
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High Barnet Station development still on track
The Barnet Society has seen the latest proposals for the High Barnet Station site. Designs won’t be finalised for several weeks, but not a lot has changed since the public consultation last November.
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Green shoots in the High Street
The first of eight trees have been planted in the High Street. They are the bitter-sweet culmination of a very long campaign by the Barnet Society and other local organisations.
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