It’s been a while since we posted! We have been incredibly busy helping create and deliver lots of wonderful wildlife friendly, urban rewilding projects across the borough of Camden, and beyond. We’ve also made a fundamental change to our business! … Continue reading
Hello, it’s been awhile! Our season has started to germinate with calls for 5 new projects in the last week! We always prioritise gardens in which you wonderful folk are doing your bit to green up your footprint! The first … Continue reading
Spring has come and gone in a flutter of butterfly wings. We have had an incredibly lovely, busy one – a big chunk of our work taking place in the creation of community gardens – something we are passionate about. … Continue reading
It may have been a while since we’ve written a blog – but we’ve had a very productive lockdown 1-2-3….etc! Whilst we continue to work with lots of lovely local clients to help bring butterflies, bees and friendly wildlife into … Continue reading
Hello everyone, We hope you are enjoying the joys of the best spring ever, and staying well. During this lockdown period, we have been concentrating on our communal gardens and helping develop community projects to keep everyone as inspired and … Continue reading
Who needs summer and flowers, eh! We say that trees and winter bark are just as beautiful! That said, looking back to summer and autumn, what a wonderful time we have had. We have been rushed off our feet with … Continue reading
As the elder trees are ripe with frothy white flowers, we have taken a break from our busy season to get picking and making lashings of delicious elderflower cordial…and of course, bubbly. Spring is turning into an aromatic, golden summer. … Continue reading
I can honestly say that our season has got off to a really wild start! All the calls we have received for new garden designs, makeover-maintenance, and top up planting days, have come with a brief to create wildlife friendly … Continue reading
We are all thrilled here at OBAB that we are having a proper winter season this year. Not only does it afford us the chance to spend our time planning lovely new gardens for clients, and come up with planting … Continue reading
What a very berry autumn this has been! All that gorgeous summer sun intensified leaf pigmentation to give us a gem of an autumn ablaze with brilliant oranges and reds: autumn colour which continued late into November. It has been … Continue reading
What an incredibly productive September we have had here at OBAB. After the very wonderful, but demanding scorcher of a summer put a lot of stress on many of our gardens – more on that later, we have been working … Continue reading
According to the old country saying, British summertime begins when the elderflower starts frothing in the hedgerows and ends when its dark-black berries appear. Our client’s gardens around us are all bursting with elderflower and new growth as late spring … Continue reading
Well our season has certainly got off to an interesting, flying start. We are always happy when we get a garden brief from busy working parents with young families, as we did recently. Whilst the aim is to create a … Continue reading
We love winter, not just for the rest it affords us all – not that there is any rest for us, as we are busily working on several really interesting, and very different design briefs (see below) but we … Continue reading
We have been rushed off our feet during September and October in our busiest couple of months ever! Where to start.. Everyone loves a secret garden, don’t they? Well, how about one hidden behind a restaurant in Tufnell Park? We … Continue reading
What a busy and productive summer it has been for us! Variety definitely being the word that sums it up! Our newly designed and planted up cottage garden on Platform 1 of Kentish Town overground looks very lovely and is … Continue reading
Creating community gardens is something we are really passionate about and we donate, free of charge, a good deal of our time. We are so proud to be curating an open day of 3 of our community gardens on Sat … Continue reading
Gosh, just where did March and April go? We have been incredibly busy working on some really inspiring projects, donating a good chunk of our time to designing and planting up – on a voluntary basis, several community gardens. Last … Continue reading
We are in thoroughly enjoying are meetings with Thameslink to plan our design for greening up the platforms at Kentish Town station, a pioneer project which we hope can role out across all stations. Under consideration firstly is an Overground … Continue reading
With each year that passes, we have come to appreciate the sculptural and fragile beauty of winter, more and more: The charcoal wash of trees silhouetted against the low light in the sky: The filigree, lace like bare branches, the … Continue reading