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About 37 Spital Square
The offices of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) are based in an eighteenth-century Huguenot silk merchant’s property. The SPAB courtyard garden in an excellent example of what can be grown in a small space with virtually no direct sun. Shade-lovers such as climbing hydrangea, ferns, hardy geraniums, hosta, astilbe, aruncus, sarcococca and Japanese grasses all grow very happily. Many of the ferns are ‘native’ to the garden. Pelargoniums also thrive and flower all year round. Most years we have blackbirds nesting in the hydrangea. We also have planting in a trough at the front of the building where there is a little more sun and we concentrate on bee-friendly flowers there. We do a small plant sale with proceeds going to the NGS, with plants either propagated from the garden or grown by Julie, our volunteer gardener, at home in Oxfordshire.
https://www.spab.org.uk/whats-on/events/ngs-spitalfields-gardens-open-day.
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