Find us (garden gate): What3words: hooks.shade.wage
This website is under review and will be replaced. The garden volunteers have a new e-mail address: gardenatnightingale@gmail.com
The garden is open everyday, from at least 10 am to at least 6 pm - the exact times depend on the availability of volunteers to do the gate. In Summer, it is open later into the evening. Let us know if there is a particular reason you’d like it to be open.
The new garden team has re-formed and is seeking new volunteers. See the following pages for more info: Gardening; Meet-up/events.
Friends Group: Newsletter: February 2023.
Current activities
15 mini-beast trail, 12 small doors; 8 rabbits (two have gone on holiday). Friends hut (playhouse).
Pond dipping: when volunteers are in the garden, we used to get nets and buckets out. Or bring your own - but please be careful that they are clean. We have small posters up by the pond: Photos of creatures dipped from the pond. You could put your sightings on iNaturalist. Please don’t go into the pond area (it is slippy and deep) - there are signs up to remind you.
About the garden...
We have turned a dis-used bowling green into a biodiverse garden for everyone to enjoy. See Capturing Cambridge for its history. We are in a corner of Nightingale Park/Rec, across the Hills Road from Addenbrooke's hospital and biomedical campus in South Cambridge (visit us).
Funding the garden project: We have been successful making applications for funding for the larger changes to the garden, but needed additional funding for everyday expenses like our annual insurance and smaller new projects. In August 2021, we started a Friends Group, which has been great: all welcome to join. It has a Newsletter, which is also available online.
In May 2018, we started a constituted group (with its own bank account), Nightingale Gardeners, details of which are on our gardening page.
Last updated: 15 November 2023