This week, I was lucky enough to attend the Unearthed Exhibition at the British Library. It was brilliant. The exhibition’s final day is Sunday, 10 August. Anyone interested in the history of gardening and how we garden today should try to go. It’s a wonderful mixture of beautiful botanical illustrations, ancient texts on herbs and flowers, displays of gardening equipment, and video installations, including 'Pollinator Pathmaker'. Created by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, it’s ‘a one-of-a-kind, interspecies artwork’.
I also enjoyed learning about the contribution made by black gardeners, women and other cultures to the development of gardening, as well as the Coco Collective films about their community garden in Lewisham, south London. Allow at least two hours to see everything!
As the blurb for the exhibition says, ‘Unearthed reveals how gardeners have cultivated more than just plants – they've sown the seeds of change.
*The photo to this blog shows a still of the Pollinator Pathmaker installation.
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This sounds inspiring - I will try to go.