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    Exhibitions

    We hold 4-6 temporary exhibitions each year focusing on different aspects of gardens and gardening. To find out about upcoming exhibitions sign up for our newsletter at the bottom of this page.

    Current

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    Lost Gardens of London

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    Frances Palmer: Pedestal Explorations

    Online Exhibitions

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    Beatrice Hasell-McCosh: The Ghost of a Garden

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    Online Exhibition | Private & Public: Finding the Modern British Garden

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    Online Exhibition | Lucian Freud: Plant Portraits

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    Wild & Cultivated: Fashioning the Rose Online Exhibition

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    Sowing Roots Online Exhibition

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    The Botanical World of Raymond Booth Online Exhibition

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    Derek Jarman: My Garden’s Boundaries are the Horizon Online Exhibition

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    Constance Spry and the Fashion for Flowers Online Exhibition

    Past

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    Project Giving Back: Gardens for Good Causes 2024

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    Gardening Bohemia: Bloomsbury Women Outdoors

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    Ian Berry: The Secret Garden

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    Why Women Grow: Alice Vincent

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    British Flowers Week 2024

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    Jean-Marie Toulgouat: Gardening Giverny

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    Maria Bell-Salter: Fruition

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    Frank Walter: Artist, Gardener, Radical

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    TOAST x Rosie Harbottle: In Nature We Play

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    Natasha Coverdale: Digital Botanical

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    Winter Flowers Week

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    Project Giving Back 2023: Gardens for Good Causes

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    Growing Curiosities: The Science of Gardens

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    Jean Cooke: Ungardening

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    Cabinet Cultures: Cultivating Aesthetic, Ecological, and Heritage Value in Human-Houseplant Relations

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    Beatrix Farrand: Landscape Gardener

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    British Flowers Week 2023

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    Private & Public: Finding the Modern British Garden

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    Joy Larkcom: The Queen of Vegetables

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    London Craft Week | Cecilia Charlton: Memory Garden

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    Lucian Freud: Plant Portraits

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    Phoebe Walsh: Flowers from the Frontline

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    Constance Villiers-Stuart: Earthly Delights

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    Gardens for good causes at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

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    Secret Garden Peephole Boxes

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    The Secret Garden

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    Beatrice Hasell-McCosh: Of Silence and Slow Time

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    Wild & Cultivated: Fashioning the Rose

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    British Flowers Week 2022

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    London Craft Week: Not all roses are romantic…

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    Tirthas: Thin Places | Dana Westring

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    Sowing Roots: Caribbean Garden Heritage in South London

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    The Botanical World of Raymond Booth

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    Elizabeth Blackadder: Favourite Flowers

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    Hugo Rittson-Thomas: Wildflowers For The Queen

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    Beth Chatto: Unusual Plantswoman

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    London Craft Week: Darren Appiagyei

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    Constance Spry and the Fashion for Flowers

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    Kate Friend: Botanical Portraits, as chosen by…

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    British Flowers Week 2021

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    Shara Hughes

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    Katie Spragg: Lambeth Wilds

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    Derek Jarman: My garden’s boundaries are the horizon

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    Fleur Olby: Velvet Black – Notes

    Charles Mahoney, The Garden (1950). Image courtesy of Liss Llewellyn
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    Sanctuary: Artist-Gardeners 1919-1939

    H1609 – opening of Serpentine Lido photo. 1930 Courtesy of The Hearsum Collection
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    Play, Protest and Pelicans: A People’s History of London’s Royal Parks

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    Rudi Patterson: Gardens and Landscapes

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    What to Look for in the Garden: A Ladybird Books Exhibition

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    Lizzy Stewart: Garden Party

    George Rowlett, Through Hollyhocks, Allium Stipitatum, Fennel, and Wild Carrot to the Greenhouse, 18-19 July 2018 © The Artist
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    George Rowlett: Paintings of Sarah Price’s Garden

    Studio with Open Doors (c.1942) by Ivon Hitchens, Private Collection © The Estate of Ivon Hitchens. All rights reserved, DACS 2019
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    Ivon Hitchens: The Painter in the Woods

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    Kiftsgate Court Gardens: 100 Years of Women Gardeners

    Figs and Apricots by Emma Tennant
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    Emma Tennant: A Botanical Tour of Great Britain from the Scillies to Sutherland

    Rajat Jindal as a child in his mother's garden
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    Rajat Jindal: My Garden Story

    Mondragon - The Man With The Midas Touch - ' A Botanical Index Of Narcissus'
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    Anna Skladmann: The Man with the Midas Touch

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    Repton Revealed

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    Past Exhibition: The Roots That Clutch

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    Flower Fairies: Botanical Magic

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    Katie Spragg: Glasshouses

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    Clay for Dementia

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    Past Exhibition: Cedric Morris: Artist Plantsman

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    Past Exhibition: Lucy Augé: Moving into Abstraction

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    Past Exhibition: Charlotte Verity: In Their Garden

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    Past Exhibition: A Poet in the Garden

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    Past Exhibition: Ami Waring: Garden Celebration

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    Past Exhibition: John Brookes: The Man Who Made the Modern Garden

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    Past Exhibition: Botanical Portraits by Kate Friend

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    Past Exhibition: Shedding the Allotments

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    Past Exhibition: Blooming Lambeth

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    Past Exhibition: The National Garden Scheme Photography Competition 2017

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    Past Exhibition:The Curiosity Project

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    Past Exhibition: Tradescant’s Orchard

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    Past Exhibition: Eileen Hogan

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    Past Exhibition: Modern War Gardens: Paradise lost

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    Past Exhibition: Fashion and Gardens

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    Past Exhibition: Floriculture

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    Past Exhibition: Visions of Paradise: The Japanese garden in the UK

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    Past Exhibition: Garden Open Today

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    Past Exhibition: Beth Chatto

    Online Exhibition | Lucian Freud: Plant Portraits

    Online Exhibition | Private & Public: Finding the Modern British Garden

    Beatrice Hasell-McCosh: The Ghost of a Garden

    Wild & Cultivated: Fashioning the Rose Online Exhibition

    Sowing Roots Online Exhibition

    The Botanical World of Raymond Booth Online Exhibition

    Derek Jarman: My Garden’s Boundaries are the Horizon Online Exhibition

    Constance Spry and the Fashion for Flowers Online Exhibition