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Lost Gardens of Lonodn

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan – Landscape Designer, Historian and Author

Online
Tue 19 Nov 2024 19:00

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan’s talk will focus on and celebrate the evanescence of London’s vast and varied garden legacy, and will provide insights into his forthcoming exhibition Lost Gardens of London which will open at the Garden Museum in October 2024. The gardens he will examine range from the capital’s humble allotments and defunct squares to amateur botanical gardens, princely pleasure grounds, artists’ gardens and private menageries gardens that have either vanished or that have changed beyond recognition. Lost Gardens will seek to remind us of what a precious asset gardened greenspace is, and how it has contributed over the centuries to the quality of life    and well-being of generations of inhabitants of the Metropolis.