(Photo: SHARE Community)
Open:
Saturday 10:00–17:00
+ Sunday 10:00–17:00
Description:
This beautiful and interesting garden, within the grounds of Springfield University Hospital, maintains a strong link with its historic past in both its planting and its function.
The project is based in the Gillian Webb Memorial Garden, once the Male Airing Court in the days when Springfield was the Surrey County Pauper Lunatic Asylum. In 1841 the space was laid out with vegetable plots maintained by the patients.
Today SHARE Community uses the space as the hub of a thriving horticultural training project, working with adults with disabilities. Vegetables are well represented in the crops produced by trainees, who also maintain the garden and produce plants for sale. Other features include colourful herbaceous and shrub borders, a herb garden, a pond and a willow arbour with a mosaic floor.
Horticulture project supervisor:
Jenny Shand
Activities:
Plant sale. Cold drinks.
Entrance:
Vehicle access in Glenburnie Road; pedestrian and bicycle access also from Burntwood Lane. The garden is situated in a walled enclosure to the northwest of the Main Building, facing the golf course.
Nearest postcode: SW17 7DJ
Sells tickets.
Bus:
G1 to Springfield Hospital
Stations:
Tooting Bec (if open, 1.4km), Wandsworth Common (1.7km)
Car Parking:
Parking available close to the garden. Disabled parking in the garden.
Dogs:
Dogs on leads
Conditions:
No alcohol
Further information:
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Last updated: 06/03/2010