Category Gardener’s Blog
Spring planting in Bedford Square -and something for the window box
Bedford Estates Head Gardener Tom Abbott gives news of spring work in Bedford Square and some recommendations for your city window boxes. With the warmer weather and therefore increased soil temperatures comes the opportunity to undertake the long awaited over-seeding of the main lawn at Bedford Square. Martin Towsey, overall Gardens Manager for the Bedford […]
A year in the Bedford estate squares
Thomas Abbott, the new Head Gardener for the Bedford estate squares and gardens, reviews his first winter in Bloomsbury: After a mild and wet winter Spring seems to have definitively sprung as this photograph of Ridgemount Gardens attests. The winter months were spent principally in clearing our various gardens of leaf fall and then processing […]
Weathering the storms – tree news
During this stormy weather that we have been fortunate to have had very little damage, as our trees are an important feature of the Bloomsbury squares. However, in Tavistock Square we have lost one of our age-old plane trees through disease. Camden Council Tree Department pointed out the remaining stump to us so that we could see […]
Happy Christmas from Bedford Square
The Christmas tree is up in Bedford Square and although we’re lacking a dusting of snow or even a festive frost, the lights look magical twinkling through the borders. Meanwhile, with all the leaves down, we are being treated to the sight of the magnificent London Plane trees in all their architectural glory. Silhouetted against the winter sky, […]
British Museum gift for Brunswick Square
Now that the North American garden that bloomed so colourfully in the British Museum forecourt over the summer is being dismantled at the end of the season, the plants are finding their way to Brunswick Square. The central bed, which has needed a facelift for a while, is being replenished with these colourful and drought-resistant […]
Bloomsbury Squares & Gardens 