Everyone welcome at Olden Garden – come and enjoy spring flowers and blossom, and tea and cake, during our NGS Open Gardens Day on Sunday 6th April, 2pm-5pm

Spring blossom over our new Raised Vegetable Beds – constructed with wooden sleepers purchased with our grant from NGS Community Garden Grants

Our new Olden Garden Earthlings group is making great progress with veg growing in our new raised veg beds funded with help from the NGS Community Garden Grant

Come and visit – see our spring bulbs and blossom. Or join in with gardening activities to help maintain our special green oasis in the city.

Another 30 wooden sleepers delivered, to complete the terracing repairs project and remedy the landslip caused by disintegration of the old sleepers.

We are very pleased to have been awarded a grant of £5,000 towards Olden Community Garden core activities. This grant will help pay the fees of our part-time professional gardeners who lead our volunteers and advise our trustees. Islington Council’s Community Chest is funded by Islington Council, in partnership with Cripplegate Foundation.

Thank you to the BIG Alliance for arranging a gardening day for a team of 10 volunteers from MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group). With their enthusiasm we made good progress with our Raised Vegetable Beds Repairs project funded by a National Garden Scheme Community Garden Grant.

Our volunteers have completed this project, with bulbs and plants funded by Islington Giving’s Make It Happen Fund. The flower bed is covered in autumn leaf fall waiting for spring when the bulbs will emerge. The adjacent path is re-surfaced with donated bark chippings. Thank you to Maria for leading this project, her final project for us.

Volunteers from Acacia Avenue joined our gardening day to plant three Rowan trees. Thank you to Acacia Avenue for donating the trees.

Volunteers enjoyed a celebratory lunch for Maria on her last day as our lead gardener. We wish Maria all the best for the future.