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Gardeners then and now

Discover over 100 years of Western gardening expertise

What is the future of gardening?

How will changing climate, population size and resources impact the methods and plants we grow?

What is biodiversity?

Why does it matter? And what are scientists at Kew doing to protect it?

Meet the pollinators: bees

Learn more about bees, our essential pollinators

Create an Insect A&E

Butterfly Conservation

Supporting bio-diversity

Discover how royal gardenders are supporting biodiversity

Explore how gardens are created

Explore a new blooming design technique

Designing gardens

Explore complex plans and discover legendary horticulturalists who left a green footprint

Designing on an Epic Scale

Read how Capability Brown created Weston Park

Explore Garden Design Plans

Zoom into details from of garden sketches and plans from the Garden Museum

"The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. "Vita Sackville-West, Gardening Visionary

Creating beauty

Discover designers, florists, visionaries and gardeners who make beautiful gardens possible

Sage Flowers

London based florists changing the status quo

Gertrude Jekyll

Meet the legendary Gertrude Jekyll and explore her photo album

The Suffragist Gardener

Fanny Rollo Wilkinson the first woman professional landscape gardener in England

Humphry Repton

Author of the famous Red Books and designer of iconic English gardens

HRH Prince Charles

John Brookes

Dorothy Wordsworth

Russell Page

Janet Jack

Coplestone Warren Bampfylde

Dr Arthur Hill Hassall

Lancelot Capability Brown: The man who made landscapes

Learn about the creator of the English picturesque landscape

The Iconic English Landscape

Discover how Capability Brown made the quintessential landscape

Landscapes from the Air

See Capability Brown's masterpieces from the sky

Capability Brown's Vision

Explore the plans ans gardens of Weston Park

A Curator turned Garden Detective

Read how an art curator identified an unknown painting based on the iconic scenery

Placemaking, and a good English Garden depend entirely on principle and have very little to do with fashion.Lancelot Capability Brown, Landscape Designer

Cities of Gardens

Discover how gardens grow even in urban environments

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The Granby Winter Garden, Granby

Learn about the creation of a community winter garden in Granby, Nottinghamshire

Bulbs for London

Discover this incredible initiative, planting flowers across London

The Growing Project, Birmingham

Watch a video introducing the Growing Project in Birmingham re-imagining urban spaces

The London Spade Award

Discover the London Spade Award, a prize for urban gardening run by the Metropolitan Gardens Association

From seeds to mazes, explore how gardens are created and maintained

All you need to start designing a blooming creation

The Business Mogul of Seeds

Learn how seeds became a business empire

Inspirational Women

Discover nine remarkable landscapes, and the women who helped create them

From Henry VIII to 18th Century

Part 1: Meet gardeners from 500 years of history at Historic Royal Palaces.

From 18th Century to Present Day

Part 2: Meet gardeners from 500 years of history at Historic Royal Palaces.

Green Growing

Find out how to maintain the perfect lawn

The Wonderful Watering Can

The watering can was an essential tool for any gardener

Curious Contraptions

Grow the perfect cucumber, with a cucumber straightener

What to Grow?

What to consider when planting

"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies."Gertrude Jekyll, Gardening Legend

How to pick your plants

There are over 400,000 plants in the world - picking the right ones can be tricky

The Original Plant Encyclopedia

Explore the strange history of some plants

The Mushroom Experience

Mushrooms, unique wonders of the natural world

The Plant Collectors

Meet the plant collectors who learned from indigenous communities

Blooming Dumfries

The Walled Garden in bloom

A Land Before Flowers

Discover the prehistoric ancestors of flowers