Spring

Photo by McTumshie

Spring Is Here! Kind Of

Warning: includes photos of a very cute nature.

Bee on a snowdrop. Photo © Mark Pateman

Preview: Snowdrop Days @ Chelsea Physic Garden

Glade In Chelsea.

Why, hello there Hazel!

What Signs Herald London Spring For You?

City of London announces catkins and blooming hazel on Hampstead Heath

Look out for the Deptford Jack in the Green round Greenwich on Monday. Photo by mdx via the Londonist Flickrpool

Things To Do In London Over The Long Weekend: 29 April – 2 May

One amazing long weekend of stuff to do and we haven’t even touched on wedding related activity here.

Lunchtime in Barking by pallab seth

Photos From The Weekend: Signs of Spring

Signs of spring, snapped this weekend around town and shared in the Londonist Flickrpool.

The Heygate Estate, a modern Secret Garden?

In Pictures: The Heygate Estate, SE17 – A Modern Secret Garden?

A surprising wander round the near abandoned Heygate Estate.

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Free Swimming As Brockwell Lido Reopens This Weekend

The much-loved south London pool returneth.

Elm seeds from FC Picture Library by Isobel Cameron

Ulmus Londinium: Help Map London’s Elms

Take up elm spotting this spring.

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Sunday Seasoning Special: London Blossom

A selection of cherry blossom photos to celebrate the arrival of spring.

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Extra, Extra

Enjoy these signs of spring at Kew while you can – it’s going to get cold and wet this weekend.

Easter Monday chair lifting by skitster

Fortean London: An Alternative Easter

Easter Monday chair lifting by skitster Easter, in our experience, usually means something beginning with a c: chocolate, crazed clubbing or Christianity. Or chicks and cute rabbits. Or ‘chucking it down with rain’. Anyway, “there must be some alternative” you plead. “Drink? Beards? Something different …