Huge thank you to the volunteers from Macquarie who tidied up 50 metres of dead hedge, hammering in 70 wooden poles and rebuilding the hedge stacks. They also stripped and varnished wooden garden furniture.
Category Archives: Garden
London Open Gardens – Visit Olden Garden on Saturday 8 June, 11am-4pm
Visit our hidden oasis of greenery in the city. Walk in our woodland, sit around our lawn surrounded by flower beds. Relax. Discover our meadow, orchard, butterfly garden and wildlife pond. Enjoy tea and cake in our garden house.
Weekend tickets are available for this year’s London Open Gardens. With your Weekend Ticket you can also visit our local Quill Street Allotments, and Arvon Road Allotments on the other side of the railway line from Olden Garden, as well as many other gardens not normally open to the public. Book your tickets in advance, to enter a world of secret and historic London gardens.
Over 450 visitors enjoyed our Musical Garden Party
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!
Musical Garden Party, Sunday 12th May, 2-6pm – everyone welcome!
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
Our newt!
Our volunteer gardeners spotted a newt in the garden, near our new pond. Thank you to Magic Little Grants for funding our new pond
Islington Gardeners Plant Sale Sunday 28th April
In Olden Garden 2pm-4pm – Everybody welcome at the Plant Sale – Entrance free
For sale: Herbaceous plants, shrubs, veg, herbs, house plants … Card or cash payments accepted
Tea, coffee, soft drinks, freshly-baked scones, delicious cakes
Free planting activity for children, plants and seeds for tree pits
Open Day and volunteer gardening Saturday 20 April
We need volunteers to help with a variety of spring tasks in the garden.
Children can plant sunflower seeds in pots to take home and nurture. Instructions provided.
Or just come and visit us, walk in the woodland and enjoy our spring flowers and blossom.
Everyone welcome! Tea and cakes provided.
Planting more bluebells!
We can never have too many bluebells! Volunteers created a new space and planted about 200 bluebell bulbs.
Waterlily for the new pond
Settling in a waterlily – for summer flowering. And our pond is full of tadpoles! Thank you to Magic Little Grants
A map for everyone to see
The garden and woodland illustrated