May 2nd, 2023 Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Road to National Covid Memorial Wall

May 1st, 2023 - June 2nd, 2023: Europe Trip

Segment 17 May 2nd, 2023 Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Road to National Covid Memorial Wall

17.1 Visited Garden Museum for a little bit

The Garden Museum explores and celebrates the art, history and design of British gardens and their place in our lives today.

Visitors will discover the stories of great gardeners through a permanent collection of artefacts and tools from gardening throughout history alongside botanical art, photography, and paintings exploring how and why we garden. Exhibitions, events, and community projects delve into art, architecture, plant science, food, sustainability, well-being and more, all through the lens of gardening.

The Garden Museum is home to the Archive of Garden Design, which preserves and provides access to the working records of leading British garden designers of the 20th and 21st century.

Housed in the deconsecrated church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, the Garden Museum contains the burial place of John Tradescant, an early gardener and plant hunter. To preserve his tomb, the Garden Museum was founded by Rosemary Nicholson, an admirer of Tradescant, in 1977. At the heart of the Museum is a sheltered courtyard garden designed by Dan Pearson as an ‘Eden’ of rare plants.

17.2 Left Garden Museum and walked along Lambeth Palace Road (A3036)

17.3 Crossed Lambeth Palace Road and walked along The River Thames until we reached the National Covid Memorial Wall situated just before Westminster Bridge.

The National Covid Memorial Wall in London is a public mural painted by volunteers to commemorate victims of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. Started in March 2021 and stretching more than one-third mile (five hundred metres) along the South Bank of the River Thames, opposite the Palace of Westminster, the mural consists of approximately 220,000 red and pink hearts, one for each of the casualties of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom who died with COVID-19 on their death certificate. The intent was for each heart to be "individually hand-painted; utterly unique, just like the loved ones we’ve lost".