Garden Museum

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The Garden Museum explores and celebrates British gardens and gardening through its collection, temporary exhibitions, events and garden.

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The short advice about the Garden Museum in London is: skip it! I’m sorry to say this, since I was obviously eager enough to make the trek out there and pay my 6 GBP. What gardener wouldn’t be excited at the prospect of a museum paying homage to all things gardening right in London, one of the world’s great gardening capitals! I was imagining long halls of old landscape plans, Gertrude Jekyll drawings, the history of Britain’s great gardens, journals of accomplished plant hunters, old garden…

Knot Garden with tomb of Captain Bligh, Garden Museum, Lambeth (LW18-2)

While Andrew visited the Imperial War Museum (during our September trip to London) I chose something a little different, the Garden Museum. What, you’ve never heard of it? I hadn’t either. Luckily Andrew discovered it when researching museums for the trip. From their website: “The Museum was set up in 1977 in order to rescue from demolition the abandoned ancient church of St Mary’s which is the burial place of John Tradescant (c1570 – 1638), the first great gardener and plant-hunter in…

The Garden Museum, London

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