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Quiet Garden Movement – Summer Newsletter 2026
People who love this world, people who pay attention, are gardeners, whether or not they have ever picked up a trowel. Because gardening is not just about digging. Or planting…
Sustainable Church Flowers
Sustainable Church Flowers are BIODEGRADABLE, LOCAL, SEASONAL and FOAM FREE Click on the link here to find out more
Quiet Garden Winter Newsletter
Download and print to read. We have some wonderful articles from quiet garden hosts – and from those who have benefitted from the generous gifts they offer.https://quietgarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Quiet-Places-4.pdf
To Be Or Not To Be
Hi. I’m Emma, and this is my friend Pippa. Pippa runs Pippa Willcox Gardens. I am a full time NHS employee who is slowly edging towards the dream of a career…
Gardener’s World Live
CONGRATULATIONS Emma and Pippa ! GOLD winners in the Beautiful Borders Category with their design To Be or Not to Be Designed by Emma Mayho and Pippa Willcox In the…
A day with Terry Hershey.
Last month, fellow Trustee Jill Smith and I had the huge pleasure of spending a daywith one of our patrons, Terry Hershey, together with his wife Nancy. Terry wasspending a…
Quiet Garden Newsletter 2025
Rt Revd Dame Sarah Mullally writes as a foreword for our most recent newsletter…. Quiet gardens are places where we can bring our questions, our struggles, our tiredness and our…
Quiet Garden Takes Root in St Bride’s Churchyard
St Bride’s is an oasis of both calm and community for Fleet Street and the surrounding City of London.
Dartmoor based songwriters Axford & Robinson will be releasing their new Easter song in support of the Quiet Garden Movement on Friday 28 March.
‘Dartmoor based songwriters Axford & Robinson will be releasing their new Easter song in support of the Quiet Garden Movement on Friday 28 March. Sung by Chloe Axford, ‘He Is…
Quiet Garden Movement Office move
As from 10th January 2025 the Quiet Garden office address will be: 2 Coathays, Lower Odcombe, Somerset. BA22 8TX
Beyond Belief
The Quiet Garden Movement has this week featured on Radio 4! ‘Beyond Belief’, is a half hour weekly programme which ‘explores the place and nature of faith in today’s world’,…
The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally DBE
Bishop of London We are overjoyed that Dame Sarah has joined our group of Patrons. As Bishop of London, a former nurse and – when time permits – an occasional…
The Quiet Path – contemplative practices for daily life by Andrew Rudd
Blending reflection and poetry, The Quiet Path explores walking and noticing, recognizing and writing. These ordinary practices, available to all, become small journeys into small journeys into spirituality and depth.…
Moments that make a difference – from a host
We have not been idle and we have had many visitors even in the bad weather as the log burner is nearly always on and is so welcoming. Sadly, one…
“Reconnecting to the divine in nature retreat”
“Reconnecting to the divine in nature” is a retreat running at Hilfield Friary on Friday 26 th (from 12pm ) to Sunday 28 th (3pm) July 2024 geared at Christians…
Newsletter 2024
Foreword by Jonathan Herbert member of Hilfield Priory and author of Accompaniment, Community and Nature. Click here to download a copy
It is spring – a poem for Easter by Catherine James
It is Spring,when the world sighs and stretches and wakesand terraced hills,stepped once in green,now glow in goldas barley ripens. To read on or download click here