We are really excited to announce that a new mural is coming to East Greenwich! As a partner in the Cleaner and Greener East London initiative, supported by Paint the Change and funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, participants of our Climate Conversations and Art Workshops at the community garden worked up ideas and designs for a new mural for East Greenwich. With kind permission from Fingal's Bakery, Trafalgar Road, our mural artist, ATMA, will be building our vis

We have a wonderful opportunity for a dynamic project coordinator to support our Cleaner and Greener East London initiative, supported by Paint the Change with funding from The National Lottery Community Fund. The coordinator will be working alongside and supporting the Project Lead, our Artist-in-Residence and other contractors and volunteers at our lovely multi-award-winning garden. This role will support and promote our work to bring 'green-space joy' to our local communit

We have two wonderful opportunities for a Forest School Level 3 leader and a Forest School Assistant to work in our beautiful, mature Forest School alongside our community garden. These opportunities are supported by funding from Paint the Change and The National Lottery Community Fund as part of their Cleaner & Greener East London initiative. Deadline for applications Sunday 5 July 2026

Let's talk about the weather... What an extraordinary day of weather we experienced on our open day! Rain and wind moved in to lash at participants, volunteers and gazebos alike. However, that did not seem to put anyone off. We had a steady stream of visitors coming to view the garden, buy plants and delicious home-made cakes and to take part in our special Pick, Cook, Share workshop, supported by Paint the Change and The National Lottery Community Fund as part of their Clean

Save the Date! Friday 21 August 11am-1pm: We are thrilled to have Joss Carr from the Biological Recording Company join us to give an educational workshop on how to use the iNaturalist app and website to register all our wild flora and fauna sitings with the national database. This is important for the wildlife in our green spaces to protect them from encroaching development. It is also vital that good records are kept at a national level in order to monitor changes in populat

The way we garden today owes a lot to the Victorians. As industrialisation expanded towns and cities, gardens became cherished places of beauty and retreat for ordinary people. The period benefited from new tools, improved transport and cheaper glass, all of which made gardening more ambitious and widely accessible. A lively trade in seed packets developed, both flowers and vegetables, ordered by post from specialised catalogues. The layers underneath Christchurch Garden are

As part of our open day, we will be running this wonderful drop-in cooking workshop throughout. We're pleased to be part of this wonderful Open Gardens Festival, raising money for Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice. Many gardens in our area will be open on the same day so you can choose which you'd like to visit or even visit them all! We hope you'll join us to donate through our plant sale and refreshments, all to be enjoyed in our beautiful garden. More information on the

We are delighted to be hosting four climate and art workshops in May, as part of our funding for the Cleaner, Greener campaign run by Paint the Change. The results of these workshops will form the basis of a community mural to be painted in East Greenwich based the subject of Green Corridors; making access for nature to thrive in our area. The workshops will run as follows: Wednesday 13 May 5-7pm - at the garden - climate conversations - hosted by Sammy Mason, climate educato

Join our Pick, Cook Share workshops this summer in the garden. Watch this space for dates and details. Contact us if you'd like to get involved by sharing a favourite recipe or joining the sessions to learn and enjoy.

Well, folks, what a day!! We had a cyanotype workshop run by Sarah Garrod , a plant dyes talk from Liz Lowe and a Big City Bug Hunt run by Lula Wattam of Capital Growth and Millie Barnes of GCDA. Of course, there was plenty of cake; thank you to all our brilliant bakers - you know who you are! The sun shone and everyone was in great spirits. It was lovely to see lots of new faces and great to see so many old friends. What could be better on a sunny Sunday afternoon in Spri

We're very excited at CSCG to be part of a new initiative, A Cleaner Greener East London. As part of this wonderful project, we will be recruiting Artists in Residence, Forest School Leaders and Workshop subject specialists to deliver even more for our community in East Greenwich over the next three years. Sign up for our blogs as we continue to create this project and provide more details. There'll be lots of fabulous stuff to come!

Did you enjoy any of the open gardens on these two Open Garden weekends in aid of the wonderful Greenwich & Bexley Community Hospice?...

We had a wonderful response from our local community to our first event in over 2 years, Good To Grow 2022 on Saturday 23 April. Visitors...

After over 2 years, we're back to holding face-to-face events. Yey!! Our first is Good to Grow 2022, being held on Saturday 23 April...