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  • Podcast

The Garden

We explore ideas of belonging and colonial legacies, guerrilla gardening in response to a tragic event, and the link between an urban nature reserve and a GP’s surgery.

  • Article

Active pensioners, blooming gardens

To reach your 70s with over 300,000 Twitter followers or running a music festival is not the stereotypical image of retirement. But does this energetic engagement with life equal happiness?

  • Article

The healing power of the physic garden

Having experienced the healing power of plants and gardens, Iona Glen goes in search of present-day “physic gardens” and their origins in history.

  • Article

Building a dream in the garden suburbs

In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.

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Images

  • Gardening: a man digging in a walled garden. Wood engraving.
  • AGRICULTURE AND GARDENING: Machine for raisi
  • Robert Owen within a frame decorated with tools used for gardening and writing. Engraving after W.T. Fry.
  • [Leaflet about herb gardening (no.6 in a series of 8) from Kellogg's, also advertising their All-Bran high fibre breakfast cereal].
  • [Leaflet about herb gardening (no.6 in a series of 8) from Kellogg's, also advertising their All-Bran high fibre breakfast cereal].
  • An ornate vase and pedestal with gardening tools carved on the base, in a classical garden. Etching by J. Schynvoet, c. 1701, after S. Schynvoet.
  • The horticulturist; or an attempt to teach the science and practice of the culture and management of the kitchen, fruit, and forcing garden to those who have had no previous knowledge or practice. In these departments of gardening / [New ed. of 'The suburban horticulturist' revised by J.W.L. i.e. Mrs. Jane Webb Loudon. By J.C. Loudon] ; illustrated with numerous engravings on wood.
  • The Garden Pizza : free delivery / The Garden Pizza.
  • The Garden Pizza : free delivery / The Garden Pizza.
  • Royal Portsmouth Hospital: the garden, with the gardeners. Photograph, 1902.
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Events

  • Discussion

Gardeners’ Question Time

Henry Wellcome Auditorium
Past
  • Walking tour

Messages to a Post-Human Earth

St George’s Gardens
Past
  • Gallery tour

Perspective Tour with Kim Walker

Information Point
Past

Part of Perspective Tours

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