Quiet Garden Movement
Sharing outdoor space for wellbeing and the inner journey
A network of beautiful gardens and outdoor spaces for prayer, stillness, contemplation and an appreciation of the natural world.
Visit a quiet garden
There are over 250 Quiet Gardens worldwide. Find a Quiet Garden near you, or visit one while you’re on holiday…
Upcoming events
Many Quiet Gardens run regular events, such as quiet days and retreats. See what’s on local to you and book your place…
Become a host
Would your local area benefit from a Quiet Garden? Could you start your own? We’d love you to join us. See what being a Quiet Garden host involves…
The Quiet Garden Movement has been gently cultivating and tending an organic network – a flowering! – of set-aside, sensitively curated spaces in which anyone can come, without agenda, to be still. And to be restored. And to be enlivened. And perhaps to become part of the active solution, too, at this time of climate crisis.
It’s my very great joy to be part of a uniquely welcoming, divinely spacious, and deeply earthed movement, for such a time as this.
Brian Draper
Patron
"We live in a world where we are swamped by methods of communication and yet we find ourselves unable to communicate. Silence is the missing and vital ingredient. Even as little as five minutes can be restorative and healing."
Revd Phillip Roderick
Founder and Patron
Latest Quiet Gardens
St Peter’s Monkseaton Church Quiet Garden
The church garden is a peaceful, well-maintained space designed for quiet reflection and prayer
St Peter’s Church Rectory Garden
The Rectory Gardens are wrapped around the early Victorian Rectory and adjacent to the ancient parish church of St Pierre du Bois.
Support our work
The Quiet Garden Trust, which co-ordinates the Quiet Garden Movement, relies on donations to continue maintaining and growing the Quiet Garden network. Please consider making a donation or support our work in other ways by fundraising for us, joining our Friends Scheme or leaving us a legacy.