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☘️ Regular caretaking / gardening days: Sundays 2-3pm ☘️
☘️ Regular caretaking / gardening days: Sundays 2-3pm ☘️
Totally optional! There is no obligation for members to take part – only come along if you feel like the exercise or meeting other Friends. Tools are available in the waiting room, but bring your own gloves.
Fulham Cemetery Friends help to keep the cemetery tidy with occasional caretaking and gardening jobs such as removing bramble and ivy overgrowth, to planting bulbs and wildflowers, to litter picking and weeding, in coordination with the council and its contractors.
Caretaking in the cemetery is completely voluntary. Friends are under no obligation to take part. More guidance is available for volunteers.
Duke of Edinburgh volunteers have also been helping out, spending many hours removing bramble and clearing kerbs.
On this page
On this page
Clearing bramble & ivy
Protecting trees
Planting bulbs and wildflowers
Council maintenance
✅ Caretaking & gardening jobs
✅ Caretaking & gardening jobs
Fulham Cemetery Friends perform jobs such as:
Clearing bramble, ivy, and green alkanet
Cleaning up path edges
Picking up litter
Planting wildflowers
Creating biodiversity features such as loggeries & hedges
⚠️ Caretaking warnings
⚠️ Caretaking warnings
We liaise with the Council and their contractors to ensure that we follow their guidelines for any work:
Protecting graves, which are private property, and easily damaged
Protecting biodiversity, for example not doing any clearing during bird nesting season (March-August)
Friends do not do any tree works or pruning
Removing bramble and ivy
Removing bramble and ivy
Bramble (blackberries) is beneficial for wildlife and for foraging, but we would like to gradually remove it from next to paths, where it creates accessibility hazards and covers up graves, losing our historical heritage. We also want to prevent it from spreading any further.
Ivy we mainly want to remove where it is covering graves next to paths, and where it is weakening trees.
In July 2024 we surveyed where bramble is spreading in the cemetery – indicated in the tinted areas on the map.
Pink: bramble we would like to remove.
Yellow: bramble that will be left alone.
Cyan: bramble removed to date.
Read our May 2025 update on bramble clearance.
Bramble clearance near the war memorial by volunteers during January 2025. Read our May 2025 update.
If a grave is just beginning to be covered by ivy or bramble, this can be carefully removed without damaging the stone.
Green waste should be cleaned up and put into canvas bags for removal. Bags can be found in the waiting room.
Creating and maintaining twig hedges to protect delicate bulbs such as wood anemones, and also benefit biodiversity.
Protecting trees
Protecting trees
Where tree branches are harmed by their wire guards, this can be cut away with pliers or cushioned with a piece of fabric.
A section of the tree guard is cut away at the base to allow for weeding and mulching.
Planting bulbs and wildflowers
Planting bulbs and wildflowers
Read more: Bulbs and wildflowers
In December 2024 volunteers planted 150 wood anemones near the war memorial, with twig fences protecting the planted areas.
Year 5 schoolchildren from St John's Walham Green planted 350 bluebells and snowdrops in Oct 2024.
In December 2024 Friends and Duke of Edinburgh volunteers planted 150 daffodil bulbs along the principal avenue.
Wildflower area 2: by the Munster Road gate
Wildflower area 2: by the Munster Road gate
About 20 square meters, planted with Special General Meadow Seed Mix
Council maintenance
Council maintenance
Regular maintenance in the cemetery is done by the council's contractors Idverde (general caretaking) and Red Squirrel (tree works). For any questions, contact parks@lbhf.gov.uk
Overgrown graves on the southwest path in May 2024
The same graves in October 2024
Ivy and bramble clearance
Ivy and bramble clearance
During autumn 2024 and summer 2025 council contractors have done extensive clearance of ivy and bramble from graves.
The long-term effect of this remains to be seen, as the clearance is superficial only and plants will regrow from the roots within a season, but the Friends will aim to keep these areas cleared by cutting new shoots as they appear, and checking that the council continues to maintain it.
Read our May 2025 update.
Clearing overgrown kerbs on the Munster Road avenue
Clearing overgrown kerbs on the northeast path next to the war plot
Clearing kerbs
Clearing kerbs
During December and January 2025 the council has been cutting back the grass overgrowing the kerbstones along the asphalt paths. This makes the cemetery look much neater. It is surprising to realise that there are kerbstones under the grass!
During 2025 Duke of Edinburgh volunteers have also been clearing kerbs. (Photo)
Other works
Other works
The council is planning the following improvements pending budgetary approval:
Fixing potholes and deteriorating footpaths
Fixing the walls along the avenue to Munster Road
Repairing the chapel roof
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