No Garden? No Problem!
Can’t Garden? Find someone who can
Join the Lend and Tend garden-sharing community if you have a garden you’d love some help with or if you’d love to garden but don’t have access to gardening space.
With kindness to nature and our neighbours we can create beautiful, biodiverse, and productive gardens when we share.
Register free!
Registration has been free since 2014 and will continue to always be free with no obligation. We offer further services to help our community, below. We also offer supported services for people in receipt of pension and universal credit.
On the BBC One Show with Arit Anderson
Lend and Tend’s founder, Joyce Veheary, met with the incredible award winning garden designer and writer Arit Anderson, presenter of Gardeners' World, for an inspiring interview on the BBC One Show! 🌱✨
Together, they explored the magic of garden-sharing—how it brings people together, transforms spaces, and builds greener communities. 🌍💚 Curious to know more? Find out how you can get involved and be part of this growing movement! 🌟
On The BBC One Show
Spread The Joy of Garden Sharing -
Spread The Joy of Garden Sharing -
Give someone Garden-Sharing membership
£24.00
The perfect gift for the person who has everything… except a garden.
Or what about Grandad? Not socks again, surely?
A thoughtful and useful gesture for your loved one, if they either have a garden they can’t manage it or won’t see the top of the allotment waiting list till 2045, let alone 2025.
The gift of garden-sharing gives the gift of annual membership with Lend and Tend, featuring unlimited Patch-Matches and a featured garden or featured gardener profile post to help them find the perfect Patch-Match next year.
Where can I share?
Check out the Lend and Tend map below to see where Lenders and Tenders are currently looking to Patch-Match.
Click the map to find a Patch-Match anywhere from Aberdeen, to Adelaide, Australia.
If you need more information about sharing safely, please look at the FAQs and our disclaimer page.
Our Services
One Patch-Match
£12
You can purchase a Patch-Match token at any time, either when you register, or when you’re matched, it’s up to you.
We hope you’ll love your Lender or Tender, but if for any reason you need a re-match, subsequent Patch-Matches cost £12 thereafter if needed.
This single-use token offers a match once or choose our annual membership for unlimited benefits!
Feature You or Your Garden
£12
Become a Featured Garden(er) for more exposure.
Patch-Matches are subject to demand and availability. This means we can’t tell you if and when you’ll meet your perfect gardening partner. Featuring your garden Tender profile or featuring your garden allows us to promote and advertise your availability where needed.
Buy a Featured Garden Lender Token
Buy a Featured Garden Tender Token
Join our Community
Annual Lend and Tend membership
£24
Save and join our mission!
Also entitles you to a Featured Garden(er) listing and unlimited Patch-Matches for a year!
Your membership also allows us to aid initiatives in the communities where you’re based: local food banks and biodiversity projects. Your contributions also support our Community Credit memberships for people in receipt of Universal Credit and Pension Credit.
Annual Lend and Tend Community Credit membership
Free
We provide registered Lenders or Tenders in receipt of Universal Credit or Pension Credit with annual membership which includes a free Featured Garden(er) listing and a Patch-Match free of charge. *
*subject to availability and proof of Universal Credit or Pension Credit may be required
Sponsor a Patch-Match and more!
£24 (pay-it-forward)
Share the gift of garden-sharing. If you want to pay-it-forward and give the gift of sharing gardens to a friend, family member or a someone you haven’t met yet, you can sponsor an annual membership here
From our community:
“I have a garden and never have the time or money to make it come in to fruition...what a great idea.”
— SOPHIE, GARDEN OWNER. CLAPTON
“My grandad loves this idea, an avid gardener but he’s now in a wheelchair. Now he can enjoy his garden again whilst someone else helps. My grandad’s in Essex, so I’m gonna do it a bit nearer to where I live, get a bit healthier, increase the salad in my life…hopefully.”
— RICHIE, GARDEN TENDER AND GRANDSON OF GARDEN OWNER. CANNING TOWN
“This is a win win situation! I have a garden that needs doing and there is someone nearby that wants to do it? Be my guest!”
— SUNNI, GARDEN OWNER. FULHAM
“What with the allotment list being never-ending, it’s 2 miles away from where I live anyway. I love having somewhere to grow at the end of my road.”
— DAN, GARDEN TENDER. STREATHAM
Support our work and our community.
Please tell people you’d like to garden-share, in person and online.
Tag @LendandTend on your socials to share the message.
You can print this poster and ask to display it in shops, cafes and on community notice boards in your area.
If you don’t want to garden-share but want to support the garden-sharing mission for nature and our neighbourhoods, donations are always gladly received.
