Interesting garden display in Clapham by allyzally via the Londonist Flickrpool Feeling inspired by the Chelsea Flower Show and compelled into your back yard by this gorgeous weather? Stop bothering your borders and set your green fingered energy to work designing a garden for the …
From the Hanging Gardens of Paddington to the award winning Bearded Irises of north Enfield, we’re having a Nature-ist’s wet dream of a week as Myddleton House Gardens is awarded a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of nigh on half a million quid to complete a …
If you were inspired by myfolia.com and their industriously, ingenious, green fingered community or picked up Boris’ 2012 vegetable plots gauntlet then pat yourself on the back – you’re one of over 25,000 gardeners who’ve helped give homes to wildlife this year. Growing plants in …
Have you got a flat roof? Have you green fingers? If not, you might be tempted to colour them in soon, as Boris wants to create 2012 new vegetable growing plots on London’s rooftops to help feed the future influx of hungry Olympians in need …
With our Nature-ist column now firmly established and a special new gardening friend, it seems Londonist is growing greener by the week. This weekend a few botanical tales caught our eye. The first is tree-shaped: could a Totteridge yew be the oldest tree in London? …
The RHS are busy bees – bet you didn’t know that they have up to seven flower shows a year in London alone. Well, there’s one on right now: unusually this one is not at the Royal Horticultural Halls but has rather gone back to …
Roof gardens were catapulted into the London spotlight this weekend as Boris proclaimed them his secret weapon in the war on climate change – or rather, to help prevent flooding in the capital by soaking up rainwater. Brilliant, say we, let’s have more of them. …
With waiting lists for London allotments spiralling into 6 years or more, the new report Growing Round the Houses, from food and farming charity, Sustain and the Women’s Environmental Network, is very welcome. It advocates planning communal food growing into social housing and transforming unused …
A small Camden charity, Hare Krishna Food for All, was named Novelis Community Recycing Project of the year at The Resource Awards last week. We hadn’t heard of them before today but nosing around their website we’re really rather in awe of their humanitarian and …
The Chelsea Flower show kicks off tomorrow and is encouraging Londoners to welcome Ratty into their gardens. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Kenneth Graeme’s The Wind In The Willows, the River and Rowing Museum will be setting up shop to tell London gardeners how …
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