Category Gordon Square
New trees and shrubs in the Bloomsbury Squares
As part of the Queen’s Green Canopy, 8 wild cherry saplings (Prunus avium ‘Stella Colt’) have been planted in Woburn Square by the University of London and 3 in Gordon Square (below) over the winter. While tiny at present, they will have spring blossom as they grow, hopefully to full size. (The fruits are edible […]
No Mow May in Bloomsbury garden squares
The University of London is taking part in No Mow May across their managed gardens in Bloomsbury. This means their grass will be spared the cut for the whole month. No Mow May is a national campaign by Plantlife. The benefits are: Providing more nectar for ten times the amount of bees, butterflies, moths and […]
Light and Shade in the Bloomsbury Gardens: View festival drawings of the squares online
The artist Nick Andrew had a busy (and exhausting!) 9 days from 16 – 24 October, drawing, demonstrating and meeting visitors in and around the Bloomsbury garden squares for the Bloomsbury Festival, with the theme of ‘Shining Light’. (See the ‘Bedford Square’ drawing below.) We’re planning an exhibition of the drawings in Bloomsbury shortly (details […]
Cafe culture returns to the Bloomsbury gardens
During lockdown 3, our cafes have been offering takeaway food and drink that we’ve been able to sit on a park bench to ‘enjoy’ as we shivered. Now the sun is out (and we’re still shivering), but soon the pleasures of sitting at a table in the gardens with a friend will be ours again. […]
Bloomsbury Gardens and coronavirus
In the new world of the coronavirus outbreak, Camden Council made an early decision to leave all their gardens open 24/7 to ease the burden on staff having to lock and unlock. In last week’s sunny weather, locals understandably headed for the gardens for exercise and fresh air. Family groups with children were playing in […]
Big Garden Bird Watch, Bloomsbury squares, 24 January
Join us on a bird walk around Gordon and Russell Squares. We will meet at noon at the main entrance to Gordon Square gardens (near the café) on Friday 24th January 2020, 12 noon. There will be a 5 minute briefing and then we will walk around Gordon Square, through Woburn Square, finishing in Russell […]
Bluebells in Bloomsbury
Warm sunshine has brought out the bluebells, spreading a blue carpet here in Queen Square. Gordon Square also has bluebells, with a signboard in one corner explaining the difference between native English ones (with flowers on one side of the stem only), Spanish ones (with a fuller, more upright flower head) and hybrids between […]
Bird watch in Bloomsbury’s squares
The recent walk carried out during RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch was successful in spotting a good variety of birds in the squares visited: Gordon Square, Woburn Square and Russell Square. To quote the walk leader (who runs weekly walks in Bloomsbury) it was an exceptionally good walk for this area. The following birds were recorded […]
Bird Walk for RSPB Big Garden Bird watch in the Bloomsbury Squares
Join us as we walk around Gordon Square, Woburn Square and Russell Square, Friday 25 January 2019, 12-1pm. Meet at noon at the main entrance to Gordon Square gardens (near the café). The walk is part of RSPB Big Garden Bird watch 27-29 January 2019 and is in addition to UCL Conservation Society regular Friday bird […]
Whose face on the new £50 note?
Contenders for gracing the redesigned £50 note are lining up, but one gaining support has a strong Bloomsbury connection: Noor Inayat Khan, whose memorial sculpture is to be found in Gordon Square. Moscow-born Noor lived as a child in London and France, and in 1942 was living again with her family in Taviton Street, just […]
Bloomsbury Squares & Gardens 