‘Gift from Grenada’: grapefruit trees win protection after London campaign | London

The subtropical grapefruit tree pair planted them in a street in southwest London for the 40 years of Marline Anderson from Grenada, described as a “gift ından from his homeland.

The trees will remain as a monument for Anderson, who has recently died, and campaigns that want to protect them were told that they were successful on Thursday.

Vasilisa Ermakova, a friend and neighbor of Anderson, said that the campaign is not only about the protection of trees, but also to protecting the memory of his friend. “It’s like he’s going to live in my eyes forever.”

Ermakova said there were two trees in the UK among a few trees grew outside the Kew gardens.

A record on the wall outside of Anderson’s old house in Battersea says that he erected the Grapefruit tree with love in the 1980s. “A gift from his homeland is Grenada. Gives fruit throughout the year, lives in the roots of the essence.”

Plak also carries Anderson’s words: gently avoid buying fruit from the tree. You can gather things that nature allows to fall. ”

Lior Berman, a local chef that campaign to give legal protection of trees, said that the fruit has made the work a marmalade for Lior’s Kitchen. “It was like a candied orange, but a little more painful. You can use the leaves for tea or to wash your hair.”

Berman said if someone came to remove the trees, people would lose something special. “You want to have a relationship with a relationship and nature. When you have a healthy, mature tree that produces fruit in the city, you want to protect it as much as possible,” he said.

“People are getting far away from the road. These are small things that can allow us to have a healthy connection with nature. Horticulture is good for your healthy, relaxing, mental health.”

This is one of the reasons that campaignists, including Berman and Ermakova, to protect trees. The apartment was worried that the tree would be removed because it belonged to the Wandsworth Council.

These fears mean that the Council’s assistant leader Kemi Akinola means that the Council will have legal consequences for anyone who lifted them after coming home to explain that the council has accepted a protection order. The Council also committed to protecting the trees.

The order is waiting to wait for full approval that can be given only after a 28 -day advice. However, Akinola said that the political will was there to protect this part of the legacy of the region.

He said: “We are currently trying to record the history of our generation of Windrush. Because otherwise, stories will go when they go.” He said that small heritage pieces, such as grapefruit trees in Battersea, are part of this story.

“Marline was a community, Ert Ermakova said. “Everyone on the street knows that he is a friend with everyone. He looked at everyone. He has three children, but I always say that he has about 20 children because he says to him ‘mother’.”

Ermakova said he was happy to receive a protection that the trees could not provide long sharp thorns. “Happy, but a little bit of pain because it was obviously not here to see him. And he really wanted to know that it would be protected.”

Considering a short time since Anderson’s death, Ermakova said he was not sure how he felt. “Considering that the funeral was only on Monday, we will all be overwhelmed by our family and friends.”

However, he added: “If we can go here in 50 years and see the tree, this will be quite extraordinary.”