Garden Services
Commission us to create wildlife-friendly spaces in the city
New gardens springing up
Cities are wonderful places for growing food and supporting biodiversity and even small interventions can make a big difference. We like to convert the harsh urban environment into lush, green, wildlife-friendly spaces that offer everyone the opportunity to enjoy and engage further with the natural world.
Our planting schemes are uniquely designed for each location, and all help to build a bigger mosaic of habitats vital for pollinators, birds, insects and other wild fauna.
We design and install gardens and planters for restaurants, schools, estates, offices, rooftops, terraces and patios, in both the private and public realm. Our garden services are offered around our local areas of King’s Cross and Southwark. Once installed, we provide a maintenance service that is local and sustainable, and ensures that our installations look fantastic all year round.
Community collaboration is key to everything we do at Global Generation. Our installations create opportunities for local people to get involved and learn.
Case Studies
Rotunda
Rotunda Bar and Restaurant asked us to create a Secret Garden for their terrace overlooking the canal in Kings Cross. We made five benches, each backed with a trellis and book-ended with planters built of upcycled wood. Each bench was painted and planted to a different colour theme. We planted herbs for their kitchen including sage, sweet bay, thyme, marjoram, curly-leaved parsley and hyssop.
Biodiversity on roofs
Global Generation was asked by Argent to help increase the biodiversity on the King's Cross development site rooftops. We worked with young people in every phase of the project, from design and implementation to documentation, to increase plant diversity and shelter for wildlife. This gave the young people involved the opportunity to learn more about ecology and to develop practical skills such as land art, basic carpentry, team working, journalism and photography.
Dock offices, Canada Water
British Land commissioned Global Generation to create mini gardens in a set of planters outside of the Dock Office that could be enjoyed by residents and employees of local businesses, as well as wildlife in the area. The mix of herbs in the planting scheme was highly fragrant. The tansies, hyssops and fennel created a tall, colourful structure in between which the thyme, sage, lavender, calendula, and other perennials bloom and grew. Young people from our Generator programme created signage.
Get in touch
Contact generate@globalgeneration.org.uk for any queries and we’ll work with you to develop a plan.
