Over time, the church garden at St Peter’s Bethnal Green has been a parade ground, schoolyard and cholera pit and was initially landscaped by the first professional female landscape gardener, Fanny Rollo Wilkinson. Now, it is a vibrant community garden bounded by 200-year-old London plane trees. The church building itself is surrounded by edible and ornamental beds and these are tended by volunteer gardeners. The private garden at the Vicarage will once again open its ‘secret garden door’ leading visitors into a peaceful haven and meeting place which has been brought back into use over the last ten years.
Accessible garden but some narrow and uneven paths. Church building is now wheelchair-accessible from the front. Half of the Vicarage garden is not wheelchair-accessible, though it is all visible
Multi-award-winning East End community food garden, brought to life by diverse local groups. Food growing, fruit trees, pond, wildflower meadow, shrubs, nectar bars and bee-friendly planting.
This is a community garden project run by local residents where everything in the garden belongs to everyone and all crops are grown and shared together. A feast of organic vegetables, salads, aromatic herbs, beautiful flowers and wildlife.
Allotments created in 1974 from post-war bomb site. Site comprises individual allotment plots, a wildlife area and communal garden border. Plant and seed sales, some refreshments.
Prize-winning garden with raised beds for 17 local people growing a variety of vegetables on a previously neglected site. Fruit trees and bushes, shrubs, flowering plants and a communal herb bed.
