Press & Media
Roots and Shoots has received good coverage in national and local newspapers with some television and radio items.
TV and Radio
The garden and educational activities have been featured in various television and radio programmes, including:
- The BBC's Springwatch season.
- An interview with Walnut Tree Walk children at the SEM unit of Kings College during "Lambeth's Living Waters" for BBC Radio's "The Big Toe Radio Show".
- Channel 4's Richard and Judy Show ("Cactus Television") feature on beekeeping and bee disease, with a second feature using video-microscope equipment.
- BBC News feature on beekeeping in the city.
- ITN News item on the launch of the "Action Earth" Campaign with Environment Agency and CSV, and children of Walnut Tree Walk Primary. Included an interview with our Wildlife Outreach Worker, broadcast in February 2004.
- A BBC Breakfast News piece on beekeeping in the city, filmed in April 2004.
- The BBC's Natural History Unit filmed in the garden with presenter Kate Humble for the series "Wild In Britain".
- An LBC radio news feature on Apple Day.
Newspapers, Magazines and Books
Roots and Shoots has also been covered in a number of magazines and newspapers, including:
- The Sunday Times (full page article in the gardening section, September 2004),
- The Times (Saturday Garden feature, June 2000 and feature article on beekeeping in cities in July 2003)
- Time Out London (2006),
- Marie Claire magazine,
- The Independent on Sunday ("Secret London" feature, January 2004),
- Hortus magazine,
- The BBC's Gardens Illustrated magazine (main feature article, May 2002).
Local Press
Local press items include features in "Living South" magazine, June 1999; "The Magazine" (Lambeth Council); Tate Modern "Bankside News"; London Assembly Labour Group Newsletter; "North Lambeth News" Autumn 2002, Spring 2003; "Lambeth Life" June 2004. Local press items are often focussed as much on the work of the trainees as on the garden.
The Wildlife Garden appears in The Common Ground Book of Orchards: Conservation, Culture and Community, 2000, and in "London Gardens: A Seasonal Guide" by Lorna Parker (1st edition 2001, revised edition, Watling Street Publishing 2004).
Media Enquiries
We welcome enquiries from the media; to arrange on-site filming, interviews or to obtain high-resolution photographs, please telephone Lindsay Swan on 07961 181982 or telephone us on 020 7587 1131 or contact us by email.
Articles
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The Sunday Times: Nursery Lessons
A wildlife garden in south London is nurturing the trainee horticulturalists as much as the plants, says Caroline Donald. -
Time Out London: Grass Roots
Lisa Mullen visits Lambeth's secret garden, Roots & Shoots, formerly a patch of derelict waste ground.
