National Garden Scheme, our floating
gardens open for charity
£5 on the door for this garden only
https://raquelmacartney.com/dance4jo-great-get-together-2017/
Watch our floating gardens and our amazing gardener Sophie Tatzkow being featured
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08t099g
If you missed out this year, look out for next years dates . www.ngs.org.uk
Courier paper Aug/Sep issue out now
Featuring the moorings
‘my tiny veg plot’ was published in 2015 and is written by Lia Leendertz with photographs by Mark Diacono
Open Garden Squares Weekend Thanks to Open Garden Squares Weekend, every June us Londoners get a flash of the capital’s best green bits without the need to scale a […]
Filmed across two days in July, Propa Stuff got together a team of urban artists to create original, large scale artworks on a dry dock barge in Bermondsey, just up […]
“This is great… yeah… What a garden is all about. Really! Sense of exploration, finding something new on every turn. And you’re moving from one barge to the other…” Joe Swift
Hope Floats. These inspiring flowering barges on the Thames show that with passion, persistence and smart choices, you can make a gorgeous garden anywhere.
London Parks & Gardens Trust aims to increase knowledge and appreciation of parks, squares, community gardens, cemeteries, churchyards – all those places that form London’s open space network. www.londongardenstrust.org
Fast forward to 18 min for floating gardens
On June 21, 1933, a boat named Tijdgeest sailed from the Volharding yard in Groningen, in the northern Netherlands, for the first time. Tijdgeest, Hendrik’s original name, means Spirit of […]
Dora-May is a 1913 luxemotor built by Pannevant, Alphen and De Rijn.We believe that her original name was Corn Flower but we have no idea of her original function. When […]
‘ILKA’ was built as a sailing barge in 1904 in Zwartsluis, Holland, most likely carrying dry agricultural cargo and building materials. A large coastal type Tjalk Dutch barge, she was […]
Chalo is a 22metre Luxemotor, built by Jong Smit and Sons, Rotterdam in 1926. When built Chalo was probably much longer in length as she has a beam of just […]
Our boat, Nooit Gedacht, was built in 1927 in Dordrecht, Holland. She is a Luxemotor, and was owned by the same family, that commissioned to have her built, for over […]
PETRONELLA built in 1924. One of the first diesel engine powered barges. Known as a Pakshuit Barge Built by D. Boot in Alphen A/D Rijn Holland fitted with Industrie ‘Hot […]
Originally named Liberté ex Twee Gebroeders this Luxemotor was built in 1924 in Rotterdam. Her name was shortened to Liberté in 1937, and she became Albatros 2 in 1977. The […]
La Baronesse was built in 1912 at Dordrecht in Holland. At the end of the Second World War her name was changed to “Vrijheid” or “Freedom”, as were 98.2% of […]
A historic Dutch Hagenaar ship, originally built from steel as a sailing barge. Located in Vreeswijk, Netherlands from 1920 until she was moved to London in 2011. Owned by Richard […]
IJsselmeer is a 1909 Klipperaak 86 built by Foxholterbosch in northern Holland. She’s constructed in riveted steel, and the 86 refers to her length in feet – odd, since the […]
Mooi Maisga Mooi Maisga is a Skûtsje Tjalk, a type of Dutch sailing barge from the northern province of Friesland. Built in the city of IJlst in 1898 by Jelle […]
Verwachting was built in Groningen, northern Holland in 1904. She is a Dutch Hasselter Aak. She worked as a commercial barge until the late 1970s when she was partly converted […]
Norma is a riveted ‘puddle’ iron Dutch barge of the Tjalk type originally built as a coastal and sea going sailing freight barge. She was built in 1891 by ‘Vrijban’ […]
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