The Garden Museum

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  • Address
    St Mary-at-Lambeth, Lambeth Palace Rd, Lambeth, SE1 7JU
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  • Phone
    7401 8865
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  • Transport
    underground rail: Lambeth North

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Lonely Planet review

In a city holding out the broad attractions of Kew Gardens, the modest Museum of Garden History housed in the church of St Mary-at-Lambeth is mainly for the seriously green-thumbed. Its trump card is the charming knot garden, a replica of a 17th-century formal garden, with topiary hedges clipped into an intricate, twirling design.

Keen gardeners will enjoy the displays on the 17th-century Tradescant père and fils, that is the father and son team, gardeners to Charles I and Charles II, globetrotters and enthusiastic collectors of exotic plants (they introduced the pineapple to London). Nongardeners might like to pay their respects to Captain William Bligh (of mutinous Bounty fame), who is buried here (he lived and died nearby at 100 Lambeth Rd). The excellent café has vegetarian food.