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.

Saturday, 1 August 2015

Planting Platforms

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The Crossrail construction across London and the closure of Thameslink to Barbican left one platform at the station looking a bit forlorn. M...
Sunday, 19 July 2015

Through Instagrammers' Eyes and Lenses

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Open Garden Squares Weekend may be over a month ago but we have been looking at all your wonderful photos from the Weekend on Instagram. The...
Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Bowling in the Backlands

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Tucked away near Notting Hill are the backlands, green spaces of different kinds, created for the St Quintin Estate, built between 1880 and ...
Tuesday, 2 June 2015

London’s Little Villages

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The film 'Notting Hill' captures a romantic London of the not-too-distant past and a beautiful, classical London garden square, Ros...
Sunday, 17 May 2015

Waiting for the Bluebells

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The bluebells were late appearing this year. I was waiting and waiting for them to come and then suddenly I got the call. No time to lose,...
Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Cafés and Catalpas

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Bonnington Square Community Gardens sit in dramatic contrast to the traffic-dominated world around them.  Leaving Vauxhall station, you pass...
Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Wassailing the Night Away

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Walking up to the Alara Permaculture Forest Garden feels at first like leaving behind the bright shining lights of N1C – the alluring new po...
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