Welcome to The Phoenix Garden

 

The Phoenix Garden is in the heart of London's West End, situated behind the junction of Charing Cross Road and Shaftesbury Avenue, in close proximity to Centre Point and St.Giles-in-the-Fields parish church.

GARDEN OPENING TIME:

365 DAYS A YEAR
8.30am - DUSK

Click on 'contact us' in the menu to send us an email. If this does not work for you, email us at:

phoenixgardeninfo@yahoo.co.uk

or write to:

The Phoenix Garden, 21 Stacey Street, WC2H 8DG,

or call: 0207 379 3187

 

 

 

 

 

The Garden is not a public park, but is privately managed by volunteers as a community garden and an environmental space. It is the last surviving of the seven original Covent Garden community gardens. The Phoenix Garden is a registered charity (formerly Covent Garden Open Spaces Association).

The land is leased from the London Borough of Camden for a 'peppercorn' rent and the garden was created on the site of a car park and opened in July 1984.

The current lease expires in 2009 and we are presently in negotiations with our landlords to extend this into the future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The garden is one of the few green spaces in the area and not only provides people with peaceful retreat from the city, but also essential habitat for urban wildlife.

We garden using environmentally friendly and sustainable practices - recycling all our green waste onsite, growing the 'right' plants for the conditions, building insect friendly log stacks and rubble heaps - and is designed to feel like a patch of countryside dropped into the centre of town.

We feed the birds year round and are visited regularly by range of species.

The garden is home to a population of frogs and the pond is a magnet in springtime for parents and children who love the West End's only frogs.

For more on the animals in the garden go to the WILDLIFE pages.

 

 

 

 

The garden has featured in:

Time Out magazines 'Top 5 Secret Places To Eat Sandwiches'.
The Telegraph newspaper gardening pages.

The Phoenix Garden has been awarded First Prize in the Best Environmental Garden category in the Camden in Bloom Competition in 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007.

In summer the garden is busy with workers escaping from the office for a bit of peace and quiet.

 

 

You can support the work we do by joining the garden as a 'Friend of the Phoenix' and will receive newsletters and invitations to all our events.

Membership subscriptions are:

GBP12 - individual

GBP18 - household

GBP5 - OAP/Student/Unemployed

per annum.

Membership forms are available from the garden office. Alternatively, you can download the form (see below) and return to the garden by post. 

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