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• What is Open Garden Squares Weekend?
• Planning your visits
• 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 are taking part this year, including 19 new ones.

• List of participating gardens

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

A national photography competition challenging you to capture what you love about your local park

Garden of the Day

Planning your Visits

Plan your journeys with Transport for London's Journey Planner.

With over 170 gardens to choose from, you can simplify the selection process by using our garden selector.

Why not walk it?

Cycle the Squares with the London Cycling Campaign

Use the C1 bus

Free rides between selected gardens. Priority given to disabled people and those who cannot travel on public transport easily.

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
  • 2003
  • 2004
  • 2005
  • 2006
  • 2007
• A Short History of the London Garden Square
• Life in a City-square
• London's Green Heritage:
  A Collection of Walks and Cycle Rides