Tales from Duck Island Cottage

We are Open Garden Square Weekend and we celebrate London’s little-known green spaces. For one weekend every June around 200 gardens are opened up to the public. Palaces, prestigious garden squares, roof and community gardens - all take part. We’re based at Duck Island Cottage – in St James’s Park, so we are really at the heart of things! Our blog will explore a unique garden every month, leading up to the June event, hopefully giving you ideas and inspiration.

Wednesday, 1 January 2014

A Tale of Two Beehives

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Near the busy Highbury and Islington roundabout sits probably the smallest garden open on Open Garden Squares Weekend – the Melissa Garden B...
Sunday, 1 December 2013

The Covert Combe

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    As you leave Hampstead Underground Station and head due north up Holly Hill, you enter into steep and undulating terrain. Apart fro...
Friday, 1 November 2013

Peace by the Tracks

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Hidden behind the busy Hampstead overground station, the World Peace Garden promotes a powerful philosophy of peace to its neighbourhood. Y...
Tuesday, 1 October 2013

An Open Secret

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A select few of the gardens listed in Open Garden Squares Weekend are open all year round and, if you ever wondered why such gardens are inc...
Sunday, 1 September 2013

A Sanctuary for Soldiers

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Gardening Leave is a very special sort of garden, one of several run by this charity. Located in the grounds of the Royal Hospital, Chel...
Thursday, 1 August 2013

The Plantswomen’s Garden

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When you imagine a private London garden square, you think of it surrounded by stout black railings, with high, terraced houses on both side...
Monday, 1 July 2013

Behind the Convent's Walls

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Across the road from Ham Common stands St Michael's Convent. Its walls are built to safeguard the seclusion of the nuns inside, so t...
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