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 fence or cro-bar wrought iron railings. Excitingly, OGSW returns to the capital this weekend with a programme hotter than last summer’s heatwave. OGSW sees London’s most luscious, leafy and often locked-down gardens open their gates to the public for one or two days only, with most hosting exclusive grounds tours and one-off workshops. For 2014 Number 10 Down Downing Street and Highbury Square, home of Arsenal Football Club back in 2006, are set to scrap their customary VIP policy and let in the riff-raff for a peek at their perfectly-kept pots, planters and pansy.