If you’re looking for inspiration for your garden then you may be interested to know that The Great London Garden Trail is being repeated this year, to celebrate the launch of the latest RHS book ‘How to Grow Practically Everything’.
Last year’s Trail attracted 5,000 visitors, and this year’s event features ten gardens designed by experienced garden designers including Charles Rutherfoord, Andy Sturgeon and Andrew Wilson that range in size from small courtyards through to large family gardens and are spread across London from Bow in the east through to Shepherds Bush in the west.
If you head over to the Garden Trail website then you’ll find more information about each of the gardens, plus a downloadable map. The ten Trail gardens will be open between 12 – 5pm on Monday 3rd May 2010, and it’s completely free to visit each one.
Blackheath Park. Designer Joanna Herald, photo copyright Caroline Hughes.
It looks as though at least two of the gardens incorporate edibles. Blackheath Park is “a large, spacious family garden complete with an avenue of young trees, traditional greenhouse, vegetable patch and gravel garden”, and Loftus Road is “a small, walled garden featuring swathes of planting including fruit, vegetables and fragrant herbs”.