Martineau Gardens is a

community garden A community garden is a piece of land gardened or cultivated by a group of people individually or collectively. Normally in community gardens, the land is divided into individual plots. Each individual gardener is responsible for their own plo ...

on Priory Road in

Edgbaston Edgbaston () is an affluent suburban area of central Birmingham, England, historically in Warwickshire, and curved around the southwest of the city centre. In the 19th century, the area was under the control of the Gough-Calthorpe family a ...

, Birmingham, England. It adjoins the Priory Hospital on Bristol Road. It features over two acres of

woodland A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with trees, or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the ''plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (se ...

and formal gardens.Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens
/ref> The Gardens are administered by a registered charity and are a member of the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens.

Wildlife

The gardens are designated a Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation (SLINC).

Awards

The Gardens have been awarded a

Green Flag Award The Green Flag Award is an international accreditation given to publicly accessible parks and open spaces, managed under licence from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, a UK Government department, by Keep Britain Tidy, ...

in 2010, 2011 and 2012, in recognition of being a well-kept 'green space'.

References

Gardens in the West Midlands (county) Community gardening in England Parks and open spaces in Birmingham, West Midlands Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the West Midlands (county) Edgbaston {{WestMidlands-geo-stub