Islington Gardeners

Welcome, and thank you for visiting our website.

Please note that we are not associated with the commercial site islingtongardeners com and do not provide gardening services.

Islington Gardeners has around 350 members who are interested in all aspects of gardens and gardening, including indoor plants, window boxes, balconies, patios, roof gardens and communal gardens. You can be green or green fingered, and you don't even have to have a garden or live in Islington to join! We also encourage a Forgotten Corners project, whereby a group of members adopt an area of public land near their homes and take over its maintenance transforming it into a beautiful space for the benefit of all who pass by. Islington Council's Greenspace are very supportive.

We have affiliated membership of the Royal Horticultural Society, the London Parks and Gardens Trust, The London Gardens Society, and the National Council for the Care of Plants and Gardens (NCCPG).

We provide:

Discounts at garden centres
Visits to interesting gardens
Bring and buy plant sales
Talks, slide shows and demonstrations
Garden Competitions
Seasonal Newsletters
The following local garden centres are currently offering a 10% discount to IG members Monday to Friday only on production of a membership card:

The Boma Garden Centre, Islip Street, London NW5 2DJ
Capital Gardens, Alexandra Palace Garden Centre, N10
Capital Gardens, Highgate Garden Centre, Townsend Yard, Highgate High Street, London N6
Clifton Nurseries, 5A Clifton Villas, London W9 2PH
North One Gardens, 25 Englefield Road, London N1 4EU

We organise several coach trips annually to beautiful gardens within convenient reach of London, and in addition we lead a 'garden walk' visiting lovely private gardens within the Borough of Islington which are not normally open to the public. The garden walk is strictly for IG members only, although members are welcome to bring a non-member friend on the coach trips, subject to seat availability.

IG has a wild sister grouping, the Islington Wildlife Gardeners' Group. There are around 20 of us, we (naturally) have no rules or funds, but we care very much about biodiversity in the borough. As individuals we are involved in hands-on activity on patches of land in Islington, we have wildlife-friendly gardens and allotments. As a group we visit wildlife locations. We also lobby on behalf of local wildlife sites as appropriate. Anybody interested in knowing more about us should contact Sue Lees: Susan(at)lees.org.uk We welcome new wildlife enthusiasts.


Privacy Policy: We don't collect or track any information about users of this site. As a club, we do maintain names and addresses of our members: these are held by the Membership Secretary and are not stored online. We do not disclose membership details to third parties under any circumstances.

Please see below a lovely spring garden belonging to an Islington Gardener - inspiration to us all! Members, do send in photographs of plants and gardens, preferably taken within Islington, to Sue Lees (susan@lees.org.uk) and we will publish them on the site.