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Let's make Merton greener together!
Merton Garden Streets is a volunteer-led initiative by local residents and businesses in the borough of Merton to make our streets greener.
The project began in 2021 and was inspired by Wandsworth’s Green the Grid project and run by volunteers from Merton's Climate Action Group. Merton Garden Streets is now delivered by Sustainable Merton, with some support from Merton Council, and led by local volunteers.
Through encouraging street and front garden planting, together we are improving community well-being and delivering important environmental benefits, such as increasing wildlife, improving air quality, and helping to prevent flooding.​​​​​
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Use the map below to see if your street is registered and send an email to gardenstreets@sustainablemerton.org to connect with your Street Coordinator.
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You can also find a list of all streets currently registered HERE.
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If your street isn’t on the map and you’d like to register it, you can do so by becoming a Street Coordinator — find out more below!
RED - Streets registered in 2025
GREEN - Streets registered in 2024
YELLOW - Streets registered in 2023
BLUE - Streets registered in 2022
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​BECOME A STREET COORDINATOR - As a Street Coordinator you will encourage other households on your street to participate and act as a liaison between us and neighbours. No skills are needed, only a willingness to knock on neighbours’ doors and pass on information.
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PARTICIPATE AS A RESIDENT - if you want to participate with hands-on support but don’t want to b a Street Coordinator, let us know, so we can connect you with your local Merton Garden Streets hub. The hub allows volunteers to share information, events, seeds and plants within their local community.
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Street Coordinators register their streets and liaise with residents to plan their planting day.
Merton Garden Streets will provide Street Coordinators with a Welcome Pack with promotional material and advice on what to plant and how.
Merton Garden Streets may be able to provide each street with a small quantity of plants, however, we do encourage residents to use their own resources and share seedlings and plants where possible.
Each street will need to source the bulk of plants, tools and other materials.
Residents get together for a fun day of community planting. Street Coordinators, please send Merton Garden Streets ‘before’ and ‘after-planting’ photos.
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We are looking for businesses to help sponsor this initiative. Sponsoring will give your business exposure to up to 1,000 households in Merton and an opportunity to get closer to our community.
If you/your business want to help you can either provide in-kind materials (plants, soil, timber etc) or cash to help with printing costs or even sponsor a street party.
Find out more about sponsoring by contacting us at gardenstreets@sustainablemerton.org.
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Part of the Front Garden Friendly Network
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In 2025, Sustainable Merton Merton Garden Streets and Merton Libraries are setting up a Seed Library in every Merton library, as part of the Merton Garden Streets project. Merton residents will be able to donate excess packaged seeds or seeds harvested from their garden. This will allow anyone to pick up free seeds, grow the plants and return the seeds to the library . This will strengthen seed diversity and local food production whilst making gardening and growing more accessible across the borough.
If you’d like to get involved by volunteering at your local Seed Library or donating surplus seeds, please contact us: gardenstreest@sustainablemerton.org.
In October 2024, Merton Garden Streets launched its new Community Food Growing Project.
In Merton, there are a lot of community gardens, allotment sites and private vegetable growing spaces. We’re trying to bring together all food growers from across the borough and create connections for locally grown food to be shared within the community and with Merton’s Community Fridge.
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HOW IT WORKS
Growers are connected via a WhatsApp group and coordinated by Sustainable Merton's Merton Garden Streets team. They are provided with information and resources on how to grow, prepare and harvest vegetables and fruit in Merton, along with recipes and information on how to store and cook with the fresh produce.​​​​
​MONTHLY EVENTS
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Through monthly events, local residents can learn all about growing fruit, vegetables, and herbs - whether that’s on windowsills, in a garden, or at an allotment. Everyone is welcome to join us!​
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Events will be advertised on the Growers' WhatsApp group, the Merton Garden Streets newsletter and at sustainablemerton.org/events.​
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GET INVOLVED!
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Growing your own produce is much easier than you think and the rewards you can reap are abundant! By growing your own produce, you have access to healthy and affordable fruit, vegetables, and herbs. You can create nature-friendly areas all over Merton and make new friends. Let’s grow food and community together!​​​
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You can find out more about volunteering at Phipps Bridge Community Garden, at Cannons Community Garden or at Mitcham Orchard HERE.​​​​
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