The museum of garden history in St Marys Church at Lambeth Palace London reopens after refurbishment on the 18th November 2008. Renamed The Garden Museum, extra space has been created inside the medieval church to display paintings, drawings and ephemera related to gardening.

Visit to The Garden Museum (Garden)

• I arrived a week too soon expecting the refurbishment to be completed ( I should have checked). It had been several years since my last visit when it was still called the museum of garden history.
• The Cafe and garden were still open and the graveyard was planted up with lots of plants including some strong growing Acanthus.
• The knot garden contained a large spirally pruned Ilex altaclariensis Golden King as a center piece.
• Evidence of the links to the Tradescant family were all over the small garden and for the most part the plants were well labeled.
• My favourite feature was an old stone seat that had been surrounded by a small hedge clipped to make it look like a sofa.

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