Full Frontal in RHS Gardening feature

By   August 3, 2012

The RHS interviewed Fern and asked “Your community group, Full Frontal, helps residents to improve their front gardens. You’ve signed up all but one house on your street and last year you achieved top marks in the IYN campaign. How did it all begin?”   Fern: “It actually began one night in June 2010 at about 1am in the morning! I decided on a bit of a whim to put leaflets through everyone’s doors suggesting we got together to form a community group. our street was desolate; all the frontages are concreted over and most were just gathering rubbish; mine was the only one with any plants in it.
my neighbousr had approached me asking for help with her garden and it suddenly hit me that maybe we could do the whole street. I think the name full frontal helped to grab people’s attention;  I’m not sure ‘ longley Road Garden Group’ would have had the same impact! everyone thought I was completely mad at first, but now we’ve got 24 houses on board and the street has been completely transformed.

2012 RHS Magazine

2012 RHS Magazine