Come along for a ‘Build your own bird box’ family activity. And invite your friends to come – everyone is welcome to join in.
Or come and help Caroline our gardener with
Join us for an hour or longer, 10am – 4pm. Coffee and biscuits will be available.
We will revive them for our community to enjoy next summer
Visitors to Olden Garden are welcome to help celebrate Have a Grow Day, an initiative of Social Farms and Gardens. Come along at any time between 10am – 4pm on Saturday 18 June. Caroline, our gardener, will welcome you. Visitors can help with the day’s volunteer gardening tasks. You will be able to see our extensive woodland and the orchard as well as our greenhouse and vegetable plots, learning more about how our garden grows.
Information about vegetable growing will be available and volunteers will be able to sow herb seeds in a pot to take home with them.
Book your Open Gardens Weekend Ticket
100+ gardens not normally open to the public, including Olden Garden, will throw open their gates to visitors on 11 – 12 June.
Please note that Weekend Tickets are only available to purchase online, you will not be able to buy them at the garden gate. Book online now and you will instantly receive an e-ticket which you can show to our volunteers on your mobile device or print at home in advance. For further information see London Square Open Gardens
Huge thank you to all who came and to all our wonderful volunteers who helped to make our Chelsea Fringe music festival such a success!
Over 350 visitors came along to enjoy our musical entertainment in our ‘secret garden’, with music groups performing all afternoon throughout the garden and woodland. Bagels, home-made cakes, and drinks from the bar were much appreciated.
Come along on Sunday 1 May to Islington Gardeners Plant Sale, being held in Olden Garden from 2 – 4pm. Teas and cake will be available. Everyone welcome.
Caroline, our gardener, will welcome your help with April tasks, dead heading, watering the pots, weeding and mulching. And we need your help to prepare the way for our new habitat for insects and birds, our new bug hotel, wildlife log pile and hedgerow.
To make space for this new habitat we first need your help to dismantle the compost bays, and clear and bag rubbish. We need lots of help. Join us for an hour or two, or longer. Coffee and biscuits will be available.