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St George’s Gardens Summer Party, 8 June
This year’s summer party by Friends of St George’s Gardens is on Saturday 8 June, 2-5pm. Please put the date in your diary and tell friends and neighbours. We’ve a free programme with something for everyone. Pete Watson’s Marama Café Band will be with us again. We have the Third Age Project’s Ukulele Band, a […]
Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors
This summer the Garden Museum will present the first exhibition to explore the gardens of the Bloomsbury group. From 15 May to 29 September 2024 Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors will centre on four extraordinary women and the green spaces they surrounded themselves with: writer Virginia Woolf and her garden at Monk’s House; her sister artist Vanessa […]
Girls in the Garden, Bloomsbury, May & June
Girls in the Garden free Nature Workshops have been arranged by the Association of Bloomsbury Squares and Gardens in association with Camden Council and Wild Therapy. They are offering a summer opportunity for girls only to take part in creative outdoor activities in the famous garden squares, encouraging girls to enjoy their local gardens. The […]
Nature’s confetti – virtual blossom
If you’ve missed the blossom in the garden squares, pop down to Centrepoint on Tottenham Court Rd to see Nature’s Confetti, on a big outdoor screen, courtesy of the National Trust and Outernet, until 24 April. As part of the charity’s annual Blossom campaign, ‘visitors to the space will be able to enjoy the power […]
Russell Square News
The spring newsletter from Friends of Russell Square is now out and available in the cafe -and also here to download. Open it for a good read.
Spring colour in Tavistock and Gordon Squares
A great result arising from the volunteers’ planting efforts in Tavistock Square in autumn 2023….and Gordon Square (maintained by the University of London) has had a wonderful display of spring bulbs in the grass.
Thanks to the volunteers in Bloomsbury Squares
Last autumn teams of volunteers planted large numbers of bulbs in Brunswick Square, Red Lion Square, Russell Square and Tavistock Square. In February, braving the weather, they were out clearing the way for the spring display to appear (as in Brunswick Square, below) . Despite the rain in March, the flowers were colourful and abundant […]
St George’s Gardens -Caring for the tombs talk and AGM, 21 March
On Thursday 21 March at 7pm, after a short business meeting (AGM) at the Coram Family Campus on Brunswick Square, there will be refreshments and then a guest speaker: Shane Greig. Shane’s job as Structures Manager in Camden Council includes taking care of the walls and tombs in St George’s Gardens. He’ll talk about how […]
Bloomsbury Brisk walk during Happier Outdoors Festival 18 March
A week to go till the start of the first-ever Happier Outdoors Festival. And what a festival it’s shaping up to be! Over 50 organisations – ranging from Kew Gardens and English Heritage to local parks’ Friends’ groups – are offering over 110 FREE activities across 29 London boroughs. On Monday 18 March, from the […]
Fanny Wilkinson, landscape gardener, in Camden (talk on 5 March)
Fanny Rollo Wilkinson (1855–1951), recently commemorated with a blue plaque on her former home in Shaftesbury Avenue, was probably Britain’s first professional woman landscape gardener, designing scores of public gardens and playgrounds, many of which can still be found across the city today. Friday 8 March is International Women’s Day and a few days before […]
Bloomsbury Squares & Gardens 