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Monocle’s favourite cities combine small-scale neighbourhoods with green spaces, but not all cities were built with the right foundations for future growth and sustainability. We champion four urban innovators who see potential in derelict spaces and find creative approaches to… Continue reading →

“… But today, in order not to get in over my head in just one go, I will stick to one project that has brought me a lot of happiness lately: The Urban Physic Garden …”

“It’s a technolicious pergola (or is it an archetypal labyrinth? an espaliered cyborg-plant?) providing a cool respite from our post-millennial angst over peak oil and peak food.” – Alexander Trevi

A visit to the Urban Physic Garden: Jane Perrone explores a pop-up community garden that’s spreading the word about the power of plants.

The Summer Issue of this gorgeous magazine has an interview with Wayward Plants founder Heather Ring as well as an article on the Urban Physic Garden by Helen Babbs.

A cinema under a flyover? A physic garden on wasteland? No unused site is safe from today’s ambitious young architects. By Ruth Lewy.

Feel-Good Herbs Are a Dose of Calm …

“Superimpose Magazine spoke with Heather, the creator of the Urban Physic Garden – she told us what we can look forward to from the project over the coming months…” They also created this lovely little film: Urban Physic Garden, London… Continue reading →

Plus London’s History of Herbal Treatments, by Helen Babbs.

“When I arrived at the East London Sukkah this blustery Saturday, the afternoon’s schedule of programs was running behind to accommodate a late entry: “A Guide to Squatting” by the North East London Squatters Network …” by Sarah Kessler.

Project: Design and build of Union Street Urban Orchard, a community garden in the heart of London, by Nicola Homer.

“We first visited the Union Street Urban Orchard when it opened, back at the end of June. It is an orchard of 85 fruit trees and more, created on an abandoned site in the east end of London. It’s a… Continue reading →

Best temp job in town: Pop-up gardens are appearing across London thanks to one pioneering enthusiast, by Emma Townshend.

David Hickey visits a temporary community garden opened on a disused London site.

“American landscape architect Heather Ring of the Wayward Plant Registry has transformed a disused site in Bankside, London, into a public garden with the introduction of apple trees, allotments, a timber pavilion, and a table-tennis table in a skip.”

“A lush urban orchard and community garden has been created on the south bank for the London Festival of Architecture and beyond.” – By Will Hurst.

The Barbican adoption event is featured in Issue 41: Gardens of Public Journal (Art – Culture – Ideas).