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• What is Open Garden Squares Weekend?
• Our sponsors
• News and features
• Could your garden take part in 2009?
• Background reading
• Other web sites and events

What is Open Garden Squares Weekend?

This is the one weekend in the year when you can:

• visit gardens in London not usually open to the public
• enjoy special activities in gardens
• discover gardens you didn't know existed. 

173 gardens took part this year, including 19 new ones.

• List of participating gardens
• Article by Catherine Miller

Our sponsors

This event would not be possible without the generous support of:

ENGLISH HERITAGE

The Royal Borough
of Kensington and Chelsea

Britain & London
Visitor Centre

Other Web Sites
(click for details)

(20-21 September 2008)

The National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies

Garden of the Day

News and Features

Could your garden take part in 2009?

Private institutional, commercial and communal gardens in all parts of London are welcome to take part in the Weekend (13-14 June). We are interested in gardens of all shapes and sizes, from the historic and traditional, to the new and experimental - in the air, on the ground or climbing the walls!

• Further details.

Background information:

• Visitors' Comments
• Past years' Open Garden Squares Weekends
  • 1998
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2005
  • 2006
  • 2007
  • 2008
• A Short History of the London Garden Square
• Life in a City-square
• London's Green Heritage:
  A Collection of Walks and Cycle Rides