May 1 – July 3 2025
We will explore the fascinating and exacting world of C19th British horticulture and its development as a respectable, skilled Victorian trade which matured into a competitive gardening community with the high standards so typical of the glorious Victorian age. We will learn of amateur and professional gardeners who rolled up their sleeves to progress gardening innovation and technology that leapt over the estate fence and into the public’s imagination. Their aim was to cultivate and display an adopted plant kingdom of exciting new introductions and hybrids to make Britain into the most admired nation of gardeners.