
Listen to episode 164 below.
Publication date: 29-2-24.
Duration: 16:42.
Host: Ivonne Smit.
Illustration: Old garden tools, Garden Museum in London.
Episode 164: Garden Museum, a journey through garden history
In this episode
Let’s delve into British gardening in former times! Ivonne visits the Garden Museum in London. The galleries here tell the story of gardens in Britain from the 1600s until today. Ivonne points out several nice to know facts.
- What was the title of the first magazine designed specifically for the amateur gardener?
- Which flowers did soldier George Moore collect in World War I for his fiancé, who was at home in Newcastle?
- Who were the ‘weeding women’?
Remarkably, the museum’s home is the church of John Tradescant (1580-1638) who is considered to have been the first great gardener in British history.





More info
- Garden Museum website
- The former Vauxhall Gardens on the south bank of the River Thames, near the current Garden Museum (Wikipedia)
- The book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, first published in 1962 (Wikipedia)
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