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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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  • The Botanical Gardens, Oxford, 1675
  • Proposed conservatory extension, Royal Botanic Gardens.
  • Proposed conservatory extension, Royal Botanic Gardens.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey. Line engraving.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey. Process print.
  • Botanic Gardens, Oxford: plan of the gardens with details of the gateway and greenhouses. Etching, 1707, after D. Loggan.
  • Plan of the Royal Botanic Society's Gardens, Regents Park.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey: Herbarium and library. Process print.
  • Gardens: a gardener tying the trunks of young trees to support posts. Engraving.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey: lake in the arboretum. Process print.
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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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