American landscape architect Heather Ring of the Wayward Plant Registry has transformed a disused site in Bankside, London, into a public garden with the introduction of apple trees, allotments,  a timber pavilion, and a table-tennis table in a skip.

The Union Street Urban Orchard, which opened last weekend as part of the London Festival of Architecture, hosts workshops and discussions on urban agriculture for locals and visitors.

Commissioned by The Architecture Foundation and built by the Bankside Open Space Trust and volunteers the space will run until September when the trees will be donated to local estates and community gardens.

Photographs by Mike Massaro

Here's some more from the organisers:

During the London Festival of Architecture and beyond, the site of 100 Union Street in SE1 will be transformed into an urban orchard and community garden.

Designed by Heather Ring of the Wayward Plant Registry and built with the help of Bankside Open Spaces Trust and an array of other helpful volunteers the garden will regenerate a disused site in Bankside and create a place for exchange between local residents and visitors to the Festival.

During the Bankside Urban Forest focus weekend on 3-4 July the Wayward Plant Registry will run a plant adoption and exchange programme, there will be a LivingARK and as well as series of workshops and discussions focusing on biodiversity and urban food growing.

In September the garden will be dismantled and all the trees will be given to local estates and other community gardens to remain as a lasting legacy of the 2010 London Festival of Architecture.

This project is delivered in collaboration between The Architecture Foundation, Bankside Open Spaces Trust, ProjectARKs and the Wayward Plant Registry.

This project is delivered in collaboration between The Architecture Foundation, Bankside Open Spaces Trust, ProjectARKs and the Wayward Plant Registry.

Below: Nest, a timber pavilion presented by the Finish Institute and designed by students and in-house architects from the Aalto University Wood Program.

Amy Warner, Volunteer Co-ordinator
Heather Ring, Orchard Designer / Project Manager, The Wayward Plant Registry
Sarah Ichioka, Director, The Architecture Foundation
Moira Lascelles, Consultant Curator, London Festival of Architecture
Peter Graal, Orchard Collaborator, Bankside Open Spaces Trust
Drew Woodhouse, Orchard Collaborator, ProjectARKs
Mischa Altmann, Orchard Collaborator, ProjectARKs
Tomas Kendall, Assistant Project Manager
Claire Healey, Assistant Site Curator
Vanessa Celosse, Materials Coordinator
Amy Warner, Volunteer Coordinator
Mike Massaro, Site Photographer

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