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Bulbs & wildflowers in Fulham Cemetery

Plants and insects form the foundation of a healthy ecosystem, which faces significant challenges in urban settings. Noticing these often-overlooked organisms is the first step toward caring for our natural world.

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Butterflies, bees, and other invertebrates

🌼 New: Snowdrops, crocus, chionodoxa, and daffodils planted by H&F Council

Thanks to H&F Parks department for planting over 1,000 bulbs along the principal avenue in late 2025, making their first appearance in Spring 2026

Bulbs

Spring flowering bulbs are an important source of food for pollinators like bumblebees in early spring.

Snowdrops on the first of February

Purple hyacinths and chianodoxa growing around a grave

Chionodoxa and grape hyacinths north of the chapel

Balkan anemones

Bluebells

Bluebells are abundant throughout the cemetery - blue, white, and purple. The best time to enjoy them is during April. The cemetery has both native bluebells and Spanish bluebells. (How to tell the difference)

Snowdrops

Small patches in various locations. Together with crocuses, the earliest harbingers of spring, appearing from the start of February.

Chionodoxa

Also called glory-of-the-snow. One patch north of the chapel, along Fulham Palace Road. Also a few along the Munster Road avenue and on some graves. More were planted along the principal avenue in winter 2025.

Crocuses

One patch in the northeast of the cemetery, near the WWII war plot, another patch along the north border next to Lillie Rec, and a few other small patches.

Daffodils

Many small patches all around the cemetery, especially to the north and south of the principal avenue, and on some graves. They flower from February to March.

Anemones

A small patch of Balkan anemones (Anemonoides blanda) grow near the war plot. They flower in early March. Native wood anemones planted along the Munster Road avenue flowered for the first time in March 2026.

Native wood anemone flowering along the Munster Road avenue in March 2026

School children busy planting bulbs along the main path

Year 5 schoolchildren from St John's Walham Green planting bluebells and snowdrops in Oct 2024.

One schoolgirl handing a bulb to another

Photos: Hammersmith & Fulham Council

Snapshot of Google Maps, showing markers

New planting

View the Ecology Map to see where bulbs and wildflowers have been planted in the cemetery.

🌼 New planting 2024

In October 2024, funded by Veolia Sustainability Fund, we planted:

150 snowdrops and 150 native bluebell bulbs, together with Year 5 pupils from St John's Walham Green, along the south side of the Munster Rd avenue. Photo album
200 native wood anemones along the north side of the Munster Road area, in 5 areas protected by twig hedges. Photo album
150 daffodil bulbs along the principal avenue.

🌼 New planting 2025

In Spring 2025 the Friends created 2 new wildflower areas, by the Munster Road Gate, and near the War Memorial.
In late 2025 H&F Council planted over 1,000 new bulbs along both sides of the principal avenue, with snowdrops, crocus, chionodoxa, and daffodils.

Fulham Palace Road entrance

Red tulips (best in early April) and salvia (best in May) in the raised beds outside the West gate.

The areas shown in yellow on the map are being protected as conservation grassland for summer.

No Mow Meadows

Why the long grass?

During the summer months (May-September), the council Parks department lets the grass in areas of the cemetery grow long. By doing this they are:

Increasing biodiversity
Providing habitat for insects, such as butterflies, and other wildlife
Reducing CO2 emissions
Promoting sustainable landscaping

Paths are mowed to open up areas for walkers and allow access to graves.

Read more on the LHBF website: No Mow May and No Mow Meadows ↗️
Read more on the LHBF website: Long grass areas in cemeteries ↗️
Read our July 2025 update: No mow meadows and pollinator counts

We are working with the council Parks department to hopefully increase these areas in future years.

Wildflower areas

In Spring 2025 the Friends created 2 new wildflower areas to benefit pollinators. We removed existing grass, bramble, and ivy to reduce competition, and sowed 2 different native wildflower mixes. We will be observing the results over the years ahead to learn and improve.