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Paint, Read, Create, Design

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Travel the world from one garden

Explore 8 distinctive environments from Ventnor Botanic Gardens

Explore the world from a garden

Thanks to gardening innovation these gardens can grow plants from around the world on the British Isles

Step into miniature micro climates

Explore the unique worlds of the Eden Project

The Rainforest Biome

Explore the largest captive rainforest

The Mediterranean Biome

Step into a Mediterranean summer

A Cornish Garden

Discover Cornish plants, flowers and trees

Creating Paradise

Discover how gardeners created idyllic spaces combining architecture, artworks, design and horticulture

Paradise Lost: Paradise Restored

Read about the beautiful gardens at Hestercombe and how they haven been preserved

Arcadia

Learn how bridges, bathouses, temples and grottos made the English Arcadia

The World's Largest treehouse

The Singing Duchess Gate

The Hampton Court Palace Maze

Beasts, gods and a poet

The Great Pagoda at Kew Gardens

The social life of gardens

From scrap booking and cooking to magazines and Morris Men

The First Gardens on TV

Discover Alexandra Palace, the first broadcast gardens

Scrapbooks and Snippets

Dive into the colourful art of garden scrap booking

‘the sweetest place on Earth'

Read extracts from the Wordsworths' journals

From Parties to Performances

Discover the highlights of the Hill Close garden events

Hampton Court and Tourism

See Hampton Court through postcards

Garden Tabloids

Learn about the art of garden journalism

Plant to Plate

From the myth of the potato to Mary II's marmalade

Dior x Blenheim

Discover the design partnership between Blenheim Palace and Dior

Online Exhibit

Preserving Gardens on Film

Learn about the first ever gardens captured through photography

See gardens a little differently

Enjoy unique perspectives on gardens

Explore with 12 yr old Robin

Gardens expert Robin takes you on his personal tour of Alnwick Gardens

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A Personal Favourites Tour of Alnwick

Meet the team at Alnwick Gardens and their favourite spaces

An Artist's Tour of South London Gardens

Join Eileen Hogan as she explores London's green spaces

A Streetview Tour of Trees

Explore the Cambridge Arboretum in VR

A Digital Tour of Highgrove

Explore HRH Prince Charles' spectacular gardens

A Director's Tour of a Botanic Garden

Welcome to Cambridge Botanic Garden with Professor Beverley Glover

"“I had long had the dream of going to some tropical country to paint its peculiar vegetation on the spot in natural abundant luxuriance"Marianne North, Botanic Artist

Enjoy the poetry of gardens

Hear readings from journals and poetry all inspired by gardens

'This plot of orchard-ground is ours; / My trees they are, my Sister's flowers'

Lines from 'To a Butterfly' by William Wordsworth

The Poetry of City Gardens

Explore London parks through poetry

'The loveliest spot that man hath ever found'

Explore the Garden-Orchard at Dove Cottage, home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth

'I wandered lonely as a Cloud'

The story behind the creation of William Wordsworth's most famous poem, also known as 'Daffodils'.

The artistry of gardens

Charles Jones

Sculpture

Discover how Barbara Hepworth was inspired by nature

Contemporary Art

See how contemporary artists respond to botanical drawings

Interior Design

Meet Graham Stuart Thomas: rose expert & designer

Photography

See gardens through a series of early garden portraits

Art inspired by gardens

New art forms started and grew from gardens into our galleries, homes and society

Plant Illustration

Discover James Sowerby who recorded nearly 3,000 British plants

Botanical Art

Enjoy artworks that bring plants to life through pigment

Potplants to Postcards

Explore the intricate designs of carpet bedding through the humble postcard

Garden Photography: a New Medium

Discover the origins of Garden Photography

The Art of Maria Merian

Discover Maria Merien's immaculate artworks

Painting Paradise

How artists rendered gardens on canvas

Photography in Gardens

See gardens through a series of early garden portraits

The Garden as an Ornament

Read about the the Ornamental Garden at Alnwick

Ogawa's Floral Revolution

Meet Kazumasa Ogawa with the Dulwich Picture Gallery's Unearthed Exhibition

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"The garden has been both Gethsemane and Eden. I am at peace.”Derek Jarman

Zoom into a world of gardens

Explore more gardens, what's next?

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Travel the world from one garden

Explore 8 distinctive environments from Ventnor Botanic Gardens

Explore the world from a garden

Thanks to gardening innovation these gardens can grow plants from around the world on the British Isles

Step into miniature micro climates

Explore the unique worlds of the Eden Project

The Rainforest Biome

Explore the largest captive rainforest

The Mediterranean Biome

Step into a Mediterranean summer

A Cornish Garden

Discover Cornish plants, flowers and trees

Creating Paradise

Discover how gardeners created idyllic spaces combining architecture, artworks, design and horticulture

Paradise Lost: Paradise Restored

Read about the beautiful gardens at Hestercombe and how they haven been preserved

Arcadia

Learn how bridges, bathouses, temples and grottos made the English Arcadia

The World's Largest treehouse

The Singing Duchess Gate

The Hampton Court Palace Maze

Beasts, gods and a poet

The Great Pagoda at Kew Gardens

The social life of gardens

From scrap booking and cooking to magazines and Morris Men

The First Gardens on TV

Discover Alexandra Palace, the first broadcast gardens

Scrapbooks and Snippets

Dive into the colourful art of garden scrap booking

‘the sweetest place on Earth'

Read extracts from the Wordsworths' journals

From Parties to Performances

Discover the highlights of the Hill Close garden events

Hampton Court and Tourism

See Hampton Court through postcards

Garden Tabloids

Learn about the art of garden journalism

Plant to Plate

From the myth of the potato to Mary II's marmalade

Dior x Blenheim

Discover the design partnership between Blenheim Palace and Dior

Preserving Gardens on Film

Learn about the first ever gardens captured through photography

See gardens a little differently

Enjoy unique perspectives on gardens

Explore with 12 yr old Robin

Gardens expert Robin takes you on his personal tour of Alnwick Gardens

A Personal Favourites Tour of Alnwick

Meet the team at Alnwick Gardens and their favourite spaces

An Artist's Tour of South London Gardens

Join Eileen Hogan as she explores London's green spaces

A Streetview Tour of Trees

Explore the Cambridge Arboretum in VR

A Digital Tour of Highgrove

Explore HRH Prince Charles' spectacular gardens

A Director's Tour of a Botanic Garden

Welcome to Cambridge Botanic Garden with Professor Beverley Glover

Enjoy the poetry of gardens

Hear readings from journals and poetry all inspired by gardens

'This plot of orchard-ground is ours; / My trees they are, my Sister's flowers'

Lines from 'To a Butterfly' by William Wordsworth

The Poetry of City Gardens

Explore London parks through poetry

'The loveliest spot that man hath ever found'

Explore the Garden-Orchard at Dove Cottage, home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth

'I wandered lonely as a Cloud'

The story behind the creation of William Wordsworth's most famous poem, also known as 'Daffodils'.

The artistry of gardens

Discover artists and artforms that have flourished in gardens

Derek Jarman

Marianne North

Charles Jones

Sculpture

Discover how Barbara Hepworth was inspired by nature

Contemporary Art

See how contemporary artists respond to botanical drawings

Interior Design

Meet Graham Stuart Thomas: rose expert & designer

Photography

See gardens through a series of early garden portraits