There are several community parks on the edges of Kensington, most provided by council action, and some privately maintained. We’re in Grenfell’s shadow and we finish at a community Art Fair.

Sunday 10th November 2024, 1pm

Exit of Norland Open Space, with Grenfell Tower beyond

It’s Autumn, but with global warming, the leaves are still there.

We checked out a bunch of little parks and teeny green spaces, like Norland Road Community Kitchen Garden, Norland Open Space, Avondale Park which has a grass-free lawn, Lancaster Green next to Grenfell Tower, Maxilla Gardens which is being renovated, Kensington Memorial Park, Emslie Horniman’s Pleasance Park, Meanwhile Gardens and opposite: Gerry’s Pompeii, then Westbourne Green.

The walk finished at the Elevate Art Fair at Grand Junction Arts Centre where we met some artists from the local community and beyond.

Meeting place: Shepherd’s Bush station, meet by the buses
Arrive by tube: Overground or Central lines (Hammersmith and City line is not too far – Wood Lane)
Date & time: Sunday November 10th 2024, 1 pm
Distance: 3 miles
End point: Elevate Art Fair (then Paddington station)
Map: Komoot map click to view
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Norland Open Space

Norland Open Space planting

Avondale children’s playpark

Avondale Park has the best bug hotel in the borough!

In 2017 there was a terrible fire. The Guardian gave an insight into the lives of some of the people who lived nearby in this video.

Some of the people affected have been involved in improving the local gardens, in part as a means of healing.

A new helix is being built in Maxilla Gardens beneath the flyover.

Here’s the plan for the Maxilla makeover by Cameron Gardens.

The project is overseen by Grow to Know, check Westway.org/MaxillaGardens, and click here for a better version of the plan

The sunken garden, Emslie Horniman Pleasance Park, North Kensington

Dense ground cover and cherry blossoms of Meanwhile Gardens in spring

Great video of the history of Meanwhile Gardens by Steve Shaw from 1981.

Metronomes steel band, young people in rehearsal, led by Eversley ‘Breeze’ Mills

And this video featuring Tayshan Hayden Smith who talks about the park with Chadrika Dalpat, and compost with Hermione.

Meanwhile Gardens is next to the Grand Union Canal

Trellic Tower through the trees

Meanwhile Moroccan garden with water fountain, mosaic paving, pots, built by or for the women’s community group Al Hasaniya

Gerry’s Pompeii, opp. Meanwhile Gardens on Grand Union Canal

Narrowboat on the Grand Union Canal, with St Mary Magdalene’s church – and arts centre – behind

Little Venice basin, October 2024, willow salix babylonica framed with red oak quercus rubra

Map

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This Walk

Sunday 10th November 2024 – Community special – North Kensington to Union Canal

Walks Coming Up

Sunday 12th January 2025 Winter walk to City Airport and Thames Barrier Park

Sunday 9th February 2025 Bloomsbury to Barbican with artist Emma Douglas

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Previous Walks

Sunday 13th October 2024 Greenwich to Charlton

Sunday 8th September 2024 Ealing Park trail

Sunday 11th August 2024 Tooting Common to Norbury Park

A set of parks and green spaces has been provided for Londoners on the slopes that rise to the south of the Thames at Greenwich

Sunday 13th October 2024, 1pm

The trees of Maryon-Wilson Park

There’s a band of chalk starting (or ending) at Camberwell, proceeding east through Greenwich and Charlton, which hemmed in the floodwaters of the ancient Thames leaving deposits of sand and gravel and clay. These pits of sand and gravel were dug out in previous centuries, and are now left to us as parks and wild places.

Greenwich remains an attractive and old-fashioned town, where you gain an impression of how it used to be in London in the olden times. People were smaller then, and younger.

Meeting at the Cutty Sark, we crossed the Old Naval College, climbed up through Greenwich Park, through the flower garden with its forest of cedars, onto Blackheath; from there along the ridge with views north to the high rises of Canary Wharf, to the Jacobean palace at Charlton Park; then down through Maryon-Wilson Park to Gilbert’s Pit.

Ta-rah! This walk featured in Things To Do This Weekend In London: 12-13 October 2024 | Londonist Scroll down to Sunday 13 October and there is the Park to Park walk – happy days

Meeting place: by the Cutty Sark ship
Take the tube: Cutty Sark DLR, or Greenwich station
Date & time: Sunday October 13th 2024, 1 pm
Distance: 4 miles
End point: Charlton station
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Climbers in the rigging of the Cutty Sark

Above is how it looks today (October 2024) …

and here’s how it looked last time I was here, in September 2016 –

Walkers at the Observatory viewpoint

The laund – an avenue of sweet chestnut trees where Charles II hunted deer, cut back each year so the sun could fall on the lawnd

Simon telling us how a storm blew over a cedar which knocked this one sideways pulling roots out of the soil, but it landed on its elbow and survived

The deer park became the flower garden, could be renamed the cedar garden

The residents of Springfield estate have commanding views and their own parkland

Charlton House, a Jacobean mansion built for the Prince of Wales’ tutor when the boy came to London in the 1600s, has a walled garden and is the gateway to Charlton Park.

Fountain in the walled garden

Cricketers at Charlton Palace

Skateboarders in Charlton Park

Views to the city from Maryon-Wilson Park

Vine and bramble at Gilbert’s Pit, an old chalk pit and Roman settlement

Landscape planting on the approach to the Thames Barrier

Map

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This Walk

Sunday 13th October 2024 Greenwich to Charlton

Walks Coming Up

Sunday 10th November 2024 – Community special – North Kensington to Union Canal

Hounslow Heath and River Crane – Spring 2025

Previous Walks

Sunday 8th September 2024 Ealing Park trail

Sunday 11th August 2024 Tooting Common to Norbury Park

Sunday 14th July 2024 British Library to Highbury Corner

West London has some beautiful parks, and a community of artists

Sunday 8th September 2024, 1pm

Boston Manor House beyond a mighty cedar bough

September is the month when the artists and painters of the Borough of Ealing put on their BEAT Art Trail and invite you to their studios and galleries to see and buy their latest work: https://ealingbeat.org.uk/.

Ahead of the BEAT fair we’ve arranged our own trail through the parks of Ealing, taking in Haven Green, Walpole Park, Lammas Park, Blondin Park and Boston Manor Park.

Ealing is a pleasant town on what feels like the western outskirts of London but is still miles inside the edge, where house prices are as high as anywhere in the metropolis, and plenty of attractive parks are probably part of that. The parks are often the grounds of stately homes held then by a few and now open to the many.

In Walpole Park (info leaflet PDF) one mighty cedar, which has framed the view from the house for over two hundred years, has succumbed to disease, limbs have fallen – only recently I saw them on the grass – and now just a trunk remains.

Lammas Park burdock

In Lammas Park swales have been dug to capture rainfall and protect from sudden flooding. They’re experimenting with grooming less and letting the grass grow, alongside burdock, purple loosestrife, and wild umbellifers.

Similar in Blondin Park, some parts are mown close for sport but part of the allotment has been offered up to the regenerating power of rewilding. We met Linda Massey and heard how the community pavilion was funded and took shape, then we walked through the orchard and tasted the sharp fresh apples.

Blondin Park is named for the tightrope walker Charles Blondin who lived nearby. This American Heritage article captures the excitement and trepidation of his high-wire stunts over the roaring waterfalls.

Photo by Jonny Baker of slackrope walker in Blondin Park, part of an in-park exhibition curated by Angelika Berndt

Boston Manor Park hosts a mighty Cedar of Lebanon, possibly the largest in greater London.

Cedar planted in 1754, putting this tree at over 270 years old.

Boston Manor Park field

Beneath and beyond the M4 motorway which flies through the park like a manifest spaceship, lies a broad expanse of flat ground, old flood plain, which seems at first rather exposed – walkers don’t much explore the field but take it in with a glance from the margin – these peninsulas present an opportunity for some new park ideas –

• the first is to mow a pattern into the field, there is already a pathway strip, an idea which flourished briefly on football pitches
• a second is to plant, or rather encourage from the seeds already there, modernist stripes of wild flowers and grasses

Something that brings head-height interest to visitors, visible to an audience in the GSK offices and in vehicles of all kinds flying by, could elevate this area of what is a wonderful park.

Meeting place: outside Ealing Broadway station
Take the tube: Elizabeth, District, Central tubes and main line from Paddington
Date & time: Sunday September 8th 2024, 1 pm
Distance: 3.6 miles
End point: Brentford station
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Walpole Park

Freeman’s Maple just starting to turn to its Autumn Blaze colour

Photography and football in Blondin Park

Mirror room in Blondin Park Community Centre

An impressive cedar of Lebanon cedrus libani in the grounds of Boston Manor Park

Under the M4

GSK building overlooking the field of Boston Manor Park

Union Canal cyclists

Mosses on a planter outside The Potting Shed cafe

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Photo of the cedar by Tammy

Photo of the group by Tammy

This Walk

Sunday 8th September 2024 Ealing Broadway to Boston Manor

Walks Coming Up

Sunday 13th October 2024 Greenwich to Charlton

Sunday 10th November 2024 North Kensington

Previous Walks

Sunday 11th August 2024 Tooting Common to Norbury Park

Sunday 14th July 2024 British Library and Kings Cross to Highbury Corner

Walking through some of the Common lands of south London that were held back from development when the city expanded

Sunday 11th August 2024, 1pm

Tooting Bec Common woods

Walk in August heat … South of the River Thames the buildings are dense, and green spaces seem in short supply. Nevertheless, great rhomboids of park land dot the landscape on what was common land. At the time of the mid 1800’s expansion of London, local people campaigned and paid for the land to be set aside, and ever since, governing councils and local friends groups have continued to manage the space, albeit with low funds, and it is probably that lack of budget that has given the time necessary for trees to grow.

From Balham station we take a short walk to Tooting Commons, an expanse of now quite mature trees and grassland, bisected by south-bound railway lines, not all in use. Continue through suburban London across Streatham Green, which is a shifty hollow, to the slopes of Streatham Common; it’s expansive and a glance takes in the main sweep of it, but tucked away is an intricate and delightful park called the Rookery. Pass over Norwood Grove manor lands and White House down through neglected and quiet shrubs to Norbury Park which is spacious with capacity for more splendour if the Friends of the park can bring their energies to it.

Meeting place: outside Balham station
Take the tube: Northern line
Date & time: Sunday August 11th 2024, 1 pm
Distance: 4.9 miles
End point: Norbury station
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Blackberry picking Tooting Bec Common

Tooting Bec Common from Emmanuel Road

Flooded Tooting Common February 2024

Tooting Bec Common pond

Picnic on Streatham Common

Entrance to the Rookery, winter

Gazing down the slope into the Rookery cottage garden

Rookery sundial

Agapanthus just left to grow in Norwood Grove gardens

Norbury Park avenue of plane trees – winter, summer

Map

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This Walk

Sunday 11th August 2024 Tooting Common to Norbury Park

Walks Coming Up

Sunday 8th September 2024 Ealing Broadway to Brentford

Sunday 13th October 2024 Greenwich to Charlton

Previous Walk

Sunday 14th July 2024 British Library to Highbury Corner

Sunday 9th June 2024 Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens to Battersea Park

The derelict spaces north of Kings Cross were re-imagined, now they are re-built – a walk from the British Library to Highbury Corner.

Sunday 14th July 2024, 1pm

Lewis Cubitt Park has a steel sculpture by Eva Rothschild

A stimulating walk connecting several parks and public gardens … We explored the new old neighbourhoods immediately north of Kings Cross and Saint Pancras stations. Over the last few years there has been much development, with designer flats, stores and restaurants, and some lovely open spaces and plantings.

There have been many transformations of that area over historic time, and many interventions some of which have been socially motivated and idealistic, some purely for profit, which we shall see on this walk around the canal and the railway, with the most recent changes arising from connection of St Pancras to the European continent and the clearing and re-purposing of old industrial infrastructure.

The walk started from the fascinating garden of the British Library, which has a whirling solar system by Antony Gormley and a huge sculpture of Isaac Newton, and was the starting place for my Eduardo Paolozzi walk some years ago.

We walked through the sixties/seventies flats behind the Francis Crick building, and saw their idea of shared space, across St Pancras Old Church Gardens which took us back to Victorian England – and the now fallen Thomas Hardy Tree – to the resurrected Camley Nature Reserve by the Union Canal, before stepping into the energised, privately developed Coal Drops Yard with its Highline-style modernist plantings. Here’s Thomas Heatherwick explaining the vision …

Continuing north we’re again into socialist visions of community space, then town house squares, maintained and improved by local people, and parks set aside after previous uses had faded away.

I asked artist Marianne Ockinga, who painted the renovation of St Pancras, to meet us in Thornhill Square where she showed some of her prints and paintings of the square. It was a pleasure to see her work in the place where she had painted it.

Artist Marianne Ockinga (left) showing her sketches of Thornhill Square

This one shows the workers putting in the fenceposts which protect the plantings from trampling

First part of the walk just by the stations:

• British Library garden
• Story community garden
• Brill Place, closed for construction, contentious
• St Pancras Gardens
• Camley Street Natural Park

Around Coal Drops Yard:

• Bagley Walk
• Gasholder Park – here’s how gasholders worked
• the rooftop Islamic gardens of the Aga Khan Centre
• Jellicoe Gardens
• Lewis Cubitt Park which has that spidery sculpture by Eva Rothschild,

Then to the 1960s/’70s developments along the Caledonian Road:

• Bingfield Park with a Zelkova tree
• the grounds of Bemerton Estate

In the nineteenth century landowners gave over their lands for housing development; the buildings were delapidated by the 1970s, but recently renovation has made them attractive again:

• Thornhill Square
• Mountfort Terrace Open Space
• (skipping Barnsbury Wood Nature Reserve which is only open Tuesdays)
• Barnsbury Square
• Arundel Square, we were impressed that creative development enclosing the railway below had added green space to Islington
• Laycock Park
• Highbury Island by Highbury & Islington station, where we began our Highbury to Finsbury walk a couple of months before

Meeting place: British Library garden, Euston Road
Take the tube: Any line coming in to Kings Cross, St Pancras or Euston
Date & time: Sunday July 14th 2024, 1 pm
Distance: 3.2 miles
End point: Highbury & Islington station
Maps: Google map of the route, Komoot map – click to view
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St Pancras Gardens fountain

Camley Street Natural wildlife caught on camera!

Bagley Walk leading to Gasholder Park

Rooftop garden Aga Khan Centre

Jellicoe Gardens, designed by Tom Stuart Smith

Eva Rothschild’s My World and Your World 2020. Lewis Cubitt Park, Kings Cross, London. Painted steel, zinc and polyester

Bingfield Park – somewhat over-gated

Sculptured seating in Bemerton Estate

Dogs and owners, Barnsbury Square

Climbing frame, Arundel Square

Map

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This Walk

Sunday 14th June 2024 British Library to Highbury Corner

Previous Walks

Sunday 9th June 2024 Vauxhall via US Embassy to Battersea Park

Saturday 18th May 2024 Richmond-upon-Thames to Teddington

Walks Coming Up

Sunday 11th August 2024 Tooting Bec Common to Norbury Park

Sunday 8th September 2024 Ealing to Brentford

Sunday 13th October 2024 Greenwich to Charlton

Walk to America! … Vauxhall via US Embassy to Battersea Park

Sunday 9th June 2024, 1pm

London embassy of the United States of America.

One of the most interesting walks in London… Join us as we explore first of all a neighbourhood park preserved by the actions of residents, then swoop through chinese-built Shanghai-on-Thames by Nine Elms to the prairie grasses and niagara falls of the Embassy of the United States of America, and on past the resurrected Battersea Power Station to the gentle ’50s architecture of Battersea Park.

This fascinating walk took in

• Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and City Farm
• Harleyford Road Community Garden (more) and Bonnington Square (history)
• Vauxhall Park and lavender field
• the linear Nine Elms Park which includes US Embassy Gardens;
• touching on Thames Riverside Walk
• the little park by Riverlight Quay featuring Peter Newman’s Skystation
• the plantings round Battersea Power Station
• and Battersea Park itself including the Buddha Peace Pagoda.
• Afterwards those heading for a tube might cross Chelsea Bridge and peer into Ranelagh Gardens, then detour through the modernist garden at Mulberry Square.

Meeting place: Vauxhall Station, by the buses, under the metal roof ramp
Take the tube: Victoria line, or Overground
Date & time: Sunday June 9th 2024, 1 pm
Distance: 4 miles
End point: Pear Tree Cafe, Battersea Park
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Vauxhall bus station April 2020

Vauxhall Pleasure Garden looking towards the new towers of Nine Elms

Ornamental plants in Vauxhall

Harleyford Road Community Garden mosaic paving stones

Bonnington Square residents

Vauxhall Park lavender field, willow and deodar, winter.

Vauxhall Park lavender field, willow and benches, summer.

Embassy Park sky pool

Embassy Park Gardens, people swimming

US Embassy evoking Niagara Falls and Great Lake

US Embassy evoking prairie grasses May 2020

Sky Station by Peter Newman

Red hot poker plant, kniphofia, Battersea Power Station

Battersea Park topiary

Russel Page Garden

Feeding the parakeets

Peace pagoda Battersea Park

Map

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This Walk

Sunday 9th June 2024 Vauxhall via US Embassy to Battersea Park

Previous Walk

Saturday 18th May 2024 Richmond-upon-Thames to Teddington

Walks Coming Up

Sunday 14th July 2024 British Library to Paradise Park

Sunday 11th August 2024 Tooting Common to Norbury Park

Sunday 8th September 2024 Ealing to Brentford

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To celebrate the Spring Art Fair at the Landmark Arts Centre in Teddington, we took a walk upstream along the River Thames.

Saturday 18th May 2024, 12 noon

River Thames at Richmond from Twickenham Bridge

Artists invited … I was asked by Gail Astbury, our London Park to Park artist in residence if I could organise a walk to the Landmark Arts Centre, where she was showing some work that weekend 17-19 May 2024. In an area blessed with many parks and vistas I chose what I hope you will agree is a fine route.

Richmond bank

• Starting at Richmond Green and the remains of Richmond Palace,
• along the King Charles riverside,
• across Richmond Bridge,
• into Cambridge Gardens,
• and up to Marble Hill – though there’s no hill
• and Orleans Gallery Gardens.

Two trees, two posts, two people – Marble Hill park

Ham Lands

• Then Hammerton’s ferry across the Thames to Ham Lands (whose history and various flora are described by Laurence Hill on Youtube),
• along the river to Teddington Lock
• and the Landmark Arts Centre, where we saw paintings, prints and artworks by artists Gail Astbury, Suzie Heyes and Jane Stonebridge and many others.

Richmond to Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington

Meeting place: Richmond station
Date & time: Saturday May 18th 2024, 12 pm
Distance: 5.6 miles
End point: Landmark Arts Centre, Ferry Road, Teddington
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Richmond Theatre from Richmond Green

Canada geese by Richmond Bridge

Plane tree Platanus x hispanica wide girthed due to the proximity of water rather than age, Bridge House Gardens, photo taken from Richmond Bridge

Magnolia tree in Cambridge Garden, spring time. Photos by Gail

Hellebore overlooking River Thames

Royal Star and Garter home atop Richmond Hill from the Thames, and Petersham Hotel in the mid-scene

American black walnut tree, Juglans Nigra Marble Hill Park

Cricket nets at Marble Hill

Thames jetty at Orleans Gardens

Hammerton Ferry. Photo by Gail

Ham Lands meadow

Ham House entrance

Ham House gardens and oak

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Ham House grounds

Lime walk Ham Lands, known as Melancholy Avenue

Riverside Drive playground yellow gate

Willow on Riverside Drive and Ashburnham Road

Pillar marking the upstream limit of the Port of London Authority at Teddington Lock

Bridge at Teddington Lock

Landmark Arts Centre from Udney Hall Gardens – both are conversions of St Albans old church and grounds. Several old yew and holly.

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This Walk

Saturday 18th May 2024 Richmond to Teddington

Walks Coming Up

Sunday 9th June 2024 Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens to Battersea Park

Sunday 14th July 2024 British Library to Paradise Park

Previous Walk

Sunday 12th May 2024 Highbury Fields to Finsbury Park

Highbury Fields to Clissold Park and Finsbury Park

Sunday 12th May 2024, 1pm

Clissold Park Egyptian geese and deer. Dec 2023

Third walk… It was warm and sunny as we explored Sunday culture in Stoke Newington in north east London, taking in roe deer, reservoirs, rivers and parks.

This carefree walk took us through

• Highbury Fields (history)
• Clissold Park (history)
• Woodberry Down Park & reservoirs
• some of New River walk
• Finsbury Park
• and we nearly made it, Gillespie Park.

Meeting place: Highbury & Islington Station
Take the tube: Victoria line, or Overground
Date & time: Sunday May 12th 2024, 1 pm
Distance: 4.6 miles
End point: Finsbury Park Station
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Highbury Fields redwood summer

Clissold Park trunks and castle beyond

Clissold House

Clissold Park lake fountain

West Reservoir, Stoke Newington

Finsbury Park yellow gate

Finsbury Park view south to the City

Gillespie Nature Reserve alongside the railway

Map

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This Walk

Sunday 12th May 2024 Highbury to Finsbury

Walks Coming Up

Saturday 18th May 2024 Richmond-upon-Thames to Teddington

Sunday 9th June 2024 Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens to Battersea Park

Sunday 14th July 2024 British Library to Paradise Park

Sunday 11th August 2024 Tooting Common to Norbury Park

Previous Walk

Sunday 12th May 2024 Mayfair to Primrose Hill

Mayfair – Marylebone – Regent’s Park – Primrose Hill

Was: Sunday 14th April 2024, 1pm

Pink cherries, golden gates – Chester Road, the Regent’s Park

Latest walk … We explored the grand and celebrated squares and parks of Central London. With spring in the air the trees and flowers were bursting with life as we meandered through Mayfair, Regent’s Park and up Primrose Hill.

Palm tree, sun in front, sun behind, Mount Street Gardens, Westminster

Route

Mayfair section

• Green Park
• Berkeley Square
• Mount Street Gardens
• Grosvenor Square
• Portman Square

Marylebone section

• Manchester Square
• Paddington Street Gardens
• Wesley Garden
• St. Marylebone Parish Church Gardens
• Park Square and Crescent Gardens

Regent’s Park section

• We met our guide to Regent’s Park
• Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians,
• St John’s Garden
• and Queen Mary’s Rose Garden.
• Saw wart-hogs at the back of London Zoo
• crossed Regent’s Canal
• then climbed Primrose Hill for a view of London.

Meeting place: Green Park tube station, south side at gateway to Green Park
Take the tube: Jubilee, Victoria, Piccadilly lines
Date & time: Sunday April 14th 2024, 1 pm
Distance: 4.9 miles
End point: Primrose Hill
Map: Google map, Komoot map, click to view
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Diana of the Treetops Fountain in Green Park

Embrace the wall garden on Berkeley Street

Berkeley Square, statue by Alexandra Munro, a Scottish sculptor of the Pre-Raphaelite movement

POP – by Isabel Langtry, principal of Hampstead School of Art

Pop fans

Berkeley Square Gardens bowl featuring red maple and pink tulips

Spring flower bed in Mount Street Garden

Portman Square

Manchester Square

Paddington Street Gardens

Marylebone Elm, photo by Gina

Tulip Tree in Park Square garden

Hippocrates’ plane tree, which stands in the medicinal garden of the Royal College of Physicians; taken from a cutting of the parent tree in Cyprus

Chester Road cherry blossom, the Regent’s Park

Hylas and the Nymph fountain, St John’s Garden, Regent’s Park

St John’s Garden, Regent’s Park

The group surveys a rare Elm tree in a wild area of Regent’s Park

Daffodils, Regent’s Park

Football in Regent’s Park

Regent’s Park outer circle west

Royal Parks made some nice videos showing off their parks, and a new garden is coming…

Climb to the top of Primrose Hill

View from Primrose Hill

Map

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Mount Street Gardens, five photos by Gina, and one of Gina by Gail

This Walk

Sunday 14th April 2024 Mayfair to Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill

Walks Coming Up

Sunday 12th May 2024 Highbury Fields to Finsbury Park

Saturday 18th May 2024 Richmond-upon-Thames to Teddington

Sunday 9th June 2024 Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens to Battersea Park

Sunday 14th July 2024 British Library to Highbury

Previous Walk

Sunday 10th March 2024 Olympic Park to Bow Creek