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Frog, April 2018

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Our Annual General Meeting was held on Wednesday May 8th 2019. The minutes are now available. Save the date -- we are planning a party in the gardens on Sunday 21 July 2019 from 2pm to 4pm. There will be childrens games -- we have plastic ducks. There is no need to let us know you are coming, just turn up.

A Kentucky coffeetree has been planted near the main gate in Leicester Road to replace the large Turkey Oak which had become dangerous and was removed. We hope to change the sign next to it in due course -- it still says Turkey Oak at the moment.

The Saturday morning gardening sessions have now restarted. There is not a regular schedule. Do get in touch (email at foot of page) if you would like to be added to the list for receiving email updates.

The friends group has bought two new steel benches for the two hexagonal concrete bases near the pond. This was paid for out of the remaining lottery money. The pump has now switched itself off as the water level is too low. There are plenty of fish in the pond -- they are still happy as the pond is quite deep.

We have discovered that there is a page about Highlands Gardens on a web site run by the London Parks and Gardens Trust. It has some historical information that we do not have.

About the Gardens

Highlands Gardens is a public garden in Barnet, North London, UK. The main entrance is at the junction of Abbotts Road and Leicester Road, New Barnet. Near postcode EN5 5EB. map. There is another entrance on Prospect Road.

It is open from dawn to dusk every day. The gates are locked at night. It closes at 4.30pm between November and February.

We have turned off the comment facility which we used to have on the home page. We suggest that everyone continues the conversation on Nextdoor (nextdoor.co.uk), where more people will see the messages. The gardens are in the area called New Barnet North. (We used to have a link to Streetlife here. Streetlife has now been taken over by Nextdoor). If you are not local, join us on Facebook.