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Winter Flowers Week Friday Late

Winter Flowers Week Late tickets are available now! Our new winter edition of British Flowers Week includes a Friday Late on 8 December, a chance to explore the festive installations with a drink in hand alongside live music and floral activities.

For the first ever Winter Flowers Week, we’ve challenged five of the country’s top floral designers to create immersive festive installations using only seasonal, British-grown flowers and foliage, made with sustainable methods and materials. Our inaugural exhibitors are: Shane Connolly, Carly Rogers (whose previous winter installation at Sketch is pictured above), Hazel Gardiner, Tattie Rose and Floribunda Rose.

Join us for a sustainable alternative winter wonderland experience, full of inspiration for your own festive decorations!

Winter Flowers Week: 7-11 December
Late: Friday 8 December, 6pm-8pm

 

Talk this week!
The English Gardener's Garden

We’re celebrating the publication of The English Gardener’s Garden by Phaidon, a lavishly illustrated tribute to England’s most exemplary gardens, and the versatility, diversity, and eclecticism of the English garden throughout history. Our panel of speakers are all gardeners whose work at iconic English gardens features in the book, including Fergus Garrett (Great Dixter), Mat Reese (Malverleys), Charlotte Molesworth (Balmoral Cottage), and Jonny Bruce (Prospect Cottage). The discussion will be chaired by garden designer and writer Tania Compton.

Tuesday 14 November, 7pm

£15 Standard

£10 Friends, Young Fronds

£10 Livestream

 

A Q&A with digital botanical artist
Natasha Coverdale

Ahead of Natasha Coverdale’s exhibition Digital Botanical opening at the Garden Museum on 15 November, we chatted with the digital artist to find out more about her work and the inspiration she found in the museum archives for the exhibition:

How did you come to digital illustration, when did you realise you wanted to use it as your artistic medium?

I was a graphic designer for 15 years before I started Studio Coverdale. I noticed that any packaging I designed I would want to add a pattern or illustration wherever I could… Working with a Wacom tablet and pen was very comfortable to me as I used it everyday. In 2018 I was exploring the reproduction of an antique French textile and was inspired to use bright and contemporary colours in wild abandon! In the 1700’s they would have had such limitations with colour – I could use as many as I wanted! Then making the digital tangible as a giclée (also using paper made in an English factory established in the 1700’s) – all changed for me. When my first print sold I was encouraged to make much, much more…

 

Cooking Masterclass | A Taste of Antigua

Inspired by our current exhibition Frank Walter: Artist, Gardener, Radical, Antiguan food enthusiast Charlotte Benson is joining us for a three hour cookery masterclass and lunch, tasting and learning about food and drink from this small Caribbean island. This class is a combination of hands on and demo by Charlotte.

Sample Menu

Fungie (Antiguan Polenta)
Seasoned Rice and Eggplant
Christophene Salad

Antiguan Bread Pudding

Lime Squash
Antiguan Rum Punch
Lignum Vitae Tea
Bush Tea from Grandma Aki

Sunday 26 November, 10.45am-2pm
£90, includes all ingredients

 

Object of the Week:
Bowl of Fruit (undated), Frank Walter

Frank Walter’s paintings of the nourishing bounty of Caribbean fruit – persimmons, prickly pear, West Indian cherries – document the diet of a man who ate what he grew, and understood their value in his Antiguan environment where water was a precious resource.

Bowl of Fruit is more than just a picture depicting the fruits of his homeland. Placed in front of an abstracted flag, this painting tells the story of food security as a national concern, something Frank wrote about decades before it was widely known as perhaps the biggest challenge facing the island nation.

Frank Walter: Artist, Gardener, Radical is open until 25 February
Friends go free!


 

Vinca Garden Supplies

Vinca is a new online shop selling a curated selection of garden tools and supplies. The idea originated in 2019 when founder Christopher Hohler first thought of producing organic peat free compost from his family dairy farm. While discussing the positive results from the compost with his colleague Tristano, they soon realised that they could go one step further and provide high quality gardening tools and supplies online. Since then, they have actively been working to expand their partnerships and spread the love of gardening. Moreover, the pair aim to make gardening as easy as possible for all to enjoy.

Garden Museum newsletter subscribers get 10% off gloves and garden tools using the discount code GM10 until 25 November.

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