Coram’s Fields Wildlife and Wellness Garden – a haven for people and pollinators

During lockdown, the Wildlife Garden at Coram’s Fields Children’s Playground in Holborn, London, fell into disrepair. The retaining wall holding back the adjacent and higher Mecklenburg Square garden collapsed, the decking covering the ancient well (sister well to Sadler’s and Clerkenwell) gave way, and the garden never reopened to the public.

The Bee Friendly Trust has its small teaching apiary in the garden and has taken on the task of bringing the garden back into the public realm and transforming it into a Wildlife and Wellness Garden with spaces for education, reflection and quiet for humans, and a haven for native wildlife.

Pictured is a mural that we commissioned for the garden.