Get her to The Garden...

Most of my recent posts have been a tad epic, so I thought I’d limit this one to something a little less ‘War & Peace-esque’. Rather than prattle on for eons I simply want to say that The Garden Museum (near to Lambeth Palace) is one my new favourite ‘mini-museums’! Other members of this select tribe to be discussed at a later date…


Kew Gardens it ain’t. But then neither are they charging a kings ransom to get in! Instead, it is a total charmer on a tiny scale - even the actual garden is petite?!? And yet, it had a wonderful little (a theme is emerging here I feel…) expo on that green fingered genius Christopher Lloyd and his amazing home at Great Dixter (want to live there one day!), as well as some charming permanent exhibitions.

Sitting on the banks of the Thames, The Garden Museum also has a rather gothic ambience (if you can believe such a thing!) thanks to its location in a disused church.Some of the tombstones and memorials have a more than a touch of the macabre (skulls and hydras and snakes, oh my!).



Not quite sure who or what the person entombed inside this crypt must have got up to!


So go see and make it soon! Goodness knows what will happen to The Garden Museum’s funding/subsidies now our beloved new government are at the helm with scythe in hand …

Boat Drinks to the buddleia!