The Garden History Museum and the Landscape Institute are holding a seminar (Monday 1st December 10.30am to 4.30pm) on sustainable garden and landscape design. It will be ‘chaired by television presenter and garden designer, Joe Swift’. What a strange event to have planned. Is it an opportunity for Joe The Gardener, or for the Landscape Institute, to learn about the social benefits of sustainable garden and landscape design? For more details see the Press Release.
I wonder whether the Chelsa Physics Garden is illustrative of the social benefits of a (sustainable) garden? There are still many plants worldwide being studied in order to discover their medicinal uses. The library of Congress website is a useful site on this topic http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/medicplantstb.html. Kew is listed on this site but not Chelsa?