Events and lectures from other organisations for Summer 2024

The Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Rd., London SE1 7LB

New talk! Sarah Raven in conversation with Nigel Slater

In partnership with Gardens Illustrated, join our special guests Sarah Raven and Nigel Slater for an evening of lively conversation about gardens and gardening.

This special episode of the award-winning Gardens Illustrated podcast Talking Gardens will be hosted in front of a live audience this September at the Garden Museum. First-time guest Sarah Raven and returning guest Nigel Slater will join host and Gardens Illustrated editor Stephanie Mahon to talk about their dream gardens and plants, horticultural influences and inspirations.

Friday 6 September, 7pm
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and also from The Garden Museum an exhibition exploring the gardens of the Bloomsbury Group

Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors

15th May – 29th September

Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors centres on four extraordinary women and the green spaces they surrounded themselves with: writer Virginia Woolf and her garden at Monk’s House; her sister artist Vanessa Bell, whose garden and studio was at nearby Charleston; arts patron and photographer Lady Ottoline Morrell, who presided over Garsington Manor; and garden designer and writer Vita Sackville-West and the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle.

For each of the women explored in this exhibition, their gardens became places of sanctuary and experiment through times of personal and national crises, where ideas about creativity and domesticity, nature, sexuality and relationships could be uprooted and redefined.

Photographs, paintings, textiles, garden tools, manuscripts, and correspondence – many of which have never been on public view – will tell the interweaving stories of these women, their creative lives, their friends and their gardens.

Guest curated by Dr Claudia Tobin.