How Does A Londonist Garden Grow?
With peat free organic compost, a starter kit from Rocket Garden and some help and encouragement from our resident expert, Helen Babbs.
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In Pictures: The Urban Physic Garden
A medicinal oasis on Union Street, Southwark
Nature-ist: St Mary Magdalene Church Garden
Looking at London’s Green Corners. What is it? A 200 year old public park and former burial ground in the grounds of St Mary Magdalene Church. Where is it? Set back from Holloway Road with Liverpool Road to the rear, N7 8LT. It has its …
Say it With Plasticine
D’ya know what? We might just be tempted to go along to the Chelsea Flower Show this year. Hay fever and all. It’s starting to look like a bit of fun. Seems there is no end to James May‘s talents: drinker, driver, and now horticulturalist. …
Canal Allotments?
Continuing the push to get 2,012 food-growing plots of London land in time for the Olympics, British Waterways is offering up unused stretches of canal-and-riverside. We have 100 miles of waterways in the capital so that’s a lot of potential for potatoes and peas. We’re …
Health & Safety: It’ll be the Death of Us All
Londonist has a very low bureaucratic tipping point, and this was reached earlier than usual today when we read of the little old lady’s garden which was trashed by a housing association in the name of health and safety. 89 year old Matilda Finch had …
Nature-ist: Culpeper Community Garden
Londonist takes a walk on the wilder side What is it? Culpeper Community Garden, Islington. It’s a public open space that serves as both a small city park and a community environmental project. A variety of different areas, ponds, planting schemes and vegetable plots make …
The Saturday Strangeness
79. Digging Up The Past It began with a strange dream. Margaret Wilson had moved into her new home at Walthamstow but each night she was plagued by the same visions as she slept. Out of the darkness of slumber all she seemed to dream …
Nature-ist: The Quaker Garden
What is it? Bunhill Quaker Garden was formerly the Quaker burial ground and it is estimated 12,000 Quakers were buried here in unmarked graves including George Fox, the founder of the movement. The site was the first freehold land the Quakers acquired in 1661 and …
Nature-ist: St. Andrew’s Gardens
What is it? The least distinguished of Bloomsbury’s old burial grounds. An inscription shows it was converted for public recreation in 1885 and opened by Lady John Manners, one of Disraeli’s social set. It’s opposite the London Welsh Centre, so perhaps it should be St. …
Nature-ist: King Henry’s Walk Garden
Londonist Takes a Walk on the Wilder Side What is it? Formerly derelict land, King Henry’s Walk Garden is now a thriving, award-winning, organic community garden and peaceful green space. Where is it? Tucked away behind Balls Pond Road, N1 within walking distance of Essex …
