Come and visit us
Join us at Open Garden and Volunteer Gardening Days and Special Events
Sunday 28 April – Islington Gardeners Plant Sale – 2pm – 4pm – free entry – all welcome
Tuesday 30 April – Open Garden and Volunteer Gardening – 10am – 4pm
Tuesday 7 May – Open Garden and Volunteer Gardening – 10am – 4pm
Sunday 12 May – Musical Garden Party – 2pm – 6pm
The garden house is available to book for parties and meetings.
New memberships are available for the year ending 31st August 2024.
Come to our Open Garden, 10am – 4pm, every Tuesday, and on the third Saturday every month. Walk in our woodland and enjoy tea and biscuits in the garden. Families welcome.
A two-acre oasis of greenery in Islington, north London.
Over time, a herbaceous garden, an orchard, a series of vegetable terraces, a small meadow and an acre of woodland have all emerged from a railway embankment.
Under an agreement with Islington Council which owns the land, the volunteer-run Charity – Olden Community Garden – maintains the garden area, with the object to promote a community garden for the benefit of people living or working in the London Borough of Islington. Olden Garden gives local people opportunities for education and recreation, with the aim of increasing involvement in the community and reducing isolation.
A self-sustaining garden
We use harvested water, we compost all the green waste and create wildlife habitats from woody debris. There is a fruitful orchard and a flourishing vegetable garden.
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Visit our Open Garden on Saturday 10 June
On our London Open Gardens day on Saturday 10 June we will welcome visitors from 11am to 4pm.
Weekend tickets are available for this year’s London Open Gardens on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th June.
With your Weekend Ticket you can also visit Arvon Road Allotments on the other side of the railway line from Olden Garden, and many other gardens not normally open to the public.
Trimming hedges in the meadow
Huge thank you to The BIG Alliance for the team of volunteers from Euromonitor who came along to trim hedges and plant native plants, helping with our meadow enhancement project funded by Our Space Award
Over 500 visitors came to our Chelsea Fringe music festival
A huge thank you to all who came! And a special thank you to all our wonderful volunteers who made cakes and helped on the day, ensuring our Chelsea Fringe music festival was a great success! Music groups played in the woodland and on the lawn. The Mayor of Islington Cllr Gary Heather and the Mayoress Cllr Tricia Clarke enjoyed a tour of Olden Garden and met many of our visiting families and children.
Olden Garden Music Festival Sunday 21 May
Everyone welcome! Come to our Music Festival in Olden Garden on Sunday 21st May, 2-6pm. Our community event celebrates the Chelsea Fringe – the community festival of gardening.