Phoenix Garden
A volunteer-run wildlife garden squeezed between Covent Garden and Denmark Street, built on a former bomb site and car park.
- Hidden gem
- Price: Free
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Did you know
Founded in 1984 on a former car park, it is the only one of the original seven Covent Garden community gardens still surviving. It is run by a committee of local residents and workers.
Local tip
Time a visit for spring or early summer when the wildlife garden is in full bloom, and keep noise down. It's a volunteer-run sanctuary for the West End's only frog population.
Finding it
- Address
- Bloomsbury, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England, WC2H 8DG
- Nearest station
- Tottenham Court Road (Elizabeth line), 200 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- Monmouth CoffeeA Covent Garden coffee roaster that's been serving since the 1970s, usually with a small queue of regulars out the door.
- Neal's YardA small, brightly painted courtyard tucked off the streets of Covent Garden, easy to miss unless you know it.
- Coach & Horses (Greek Street)The Greek Street pub in Soho made famous by landlord Norman Balon, nicknamed London's rudest landlord, and by Private Eye's fortnightly lunches, with a wood-panelled 1970s feel and a quiet daytime atmosphere.
- Maison BertauxA tiny Soho patisserie and tea room, open since 1871, still baking cream cakes, eclairs and fruit tarts on the premises above the shop.