Fulham Cemetery has many beautiful trees and supports a rich variety of wildlife. The Friends promote tree planting, biodiversity, and caretaking.
Fulham Cemetery is a precious urban forest with a wide variety of beautiful and distinctive trees. Many are at the end of their natural lifespan, so we need to plant more trees.
London's green spaces support a vital network of animal, bird, insect, and plant species. Read more about them and how we can help care for them.
Fulham Cemetery Friends are adding a range of downloadable trails to help visitors and their children discover the biodiversity of Fulham Cemetery.
During the summer months (May-August), 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
Grass is mowed in sections to open up areas for walkers while retaining areas for biodiversity.
Read our July 2025 update: No mow meadows and pollinator counts
Read more on the LHBF website: Long grass areas in cemeteries ↗️
Fulham Cemetery Friends maintain several Google map to catalogue the cemetery's trees, planning future planting, and log biodiversity features.
Open the map in a new window to show or hide the layers.
Map shortcut: bit.ly/fulhamcemtrees
The map has layers for:
Paths, buildings, and water points
Section layout
Tree avenues
Tree census (work in progress)
Champion trees
New trees 2024
Bulbs
Potential tree locations
Bird, bat, & insect boxes
Open the map in a new window to show or hide the layers.
The map has layers for:
Bird, bat, & insect boxes
Bulbs
Wildflower areas
Loggeries
Fulham Cemetery Friends maintains a database of all new trees planted in the cemetery.
The plan is to add all the cemetery's trees to the database eventually, and add information labels to the trees, to make it easier for the public to find out information about them.