100 members of Islington u3a enjoyed drinks and nibbles at their annual summer party in Olden Garden.

Ready for a summer picnic on the lawn – for mums and babies from Birth Companions.

A huge thank you to all who came! Visitors from Islington and beyond enjoyed home-made cakes and tea on the lawn, and drinks from the bar, in beautiful sunshine. Music groups played throughout the afternoon. A special thank you to all our wonderful volunteers who made cakes and helped on the day, ensuring our music festival was a great success!

Vanessa from NGS presents the National Garden Scheme plaque to some of our volunteers, following successful completion of our funded project to repair our Vegetable Terraces.

We welcomed over 140 visitors to our London Open Gardens open day in June. Visitors appreciated being given copies of our illustrated map to guide them around our 2-acre site.

Bring your family and friends for an afternoon of music in Olden Garden – in the woodland and on the lawn. Bar, bagels, tea and cakes available all afternoon.

Entrance: Adults £5 (Child 3-16 years £1, under 3 free) – card or cash at the door

Visit Olden Community Garden on Saturday 7th June, 11am-4pm for our London Open Gardens (LOG) day. Enjoy tea and biscuits beside the lawn and walk in the woodland. A Weekend LOG ticket also lets you visit Arvon Road Allotments and Quill Street Allotments, as well as many other gardens not normally open to the public.

Over 150 visitors came to our National Garden Scheme (NGS) Open Garden day to enjoy our spring bulbs and blossom, and tea and cake. We raised over £1,000 for NGS charities.

Our new vegetable beds are flourishing, following completion of the project funded by our NGS Community Garden Grant to repair the terracing. The Earthlings are preparing the beds, planting and watering. They have planted red and white onions, shallots, broad beans, purple kale, cavolo nero, rainbow chard, leeks, spring onions, beetroot, carrots, artichoke.

We have completed the project to construct our new vegetable terracing using reclaimed oak wood railway sleepers, funded with the our NGS Community Garden Grant. Volunteers filled the veg beds with the appropriate mix of re-purposed earth and leaf compost, together with manure from Freightliners Farm – all ready for veg planting by the Olden Garden Earthlings.