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  • Tuesday, April 26, 3:00 pm Eastern – Ukrainian Gardens in Wartime, Online

    At the height of the war around Kyiv in 2022, photographer Sergii Polezhaka began documenting war-torn gardens – an abandoned tank amid neat rows of vegetables; cherry blossom trees with trenches dug around their roots to preserve them; a tended rose garden beside a bombed ruin.

    These images tell the story of a resilient nation. In Ukraine, the words land, soil, country and place share a single word – zemlya – and these gardens offer a powerful new lens through which to understand the ongoing war.

    Sergii and his wife Maria, also a garden photographer, join Clare Foster in conversation to share these haunting images and their experience of living through the conflict.

    Join the Garden Museum online on Tuesday, April 26 at 3 pm Eastern time. A recording will subsequently be available to registrants. Register at www.gardenmuseum.org.uk

    25% of ticket sales will be donated to the Memory Garden, on the grounds of the National Museum of Folk Architecture and Life of Ukraine in Pyrohiv for those who have lost loved ones in the war.

  • Tuesday, March 24, 12:00 noon Eastern – Tommaso del Buono in Conversation, Online

    Landscape and garden designer Tommaso del Buono’s career has taken him through formative years working with Sir Michael Hopkins and Arabella Lennox-Boyd in the 1990s, through to the founding of his own practice with Paul Gazerwitz in 2000. With projects across the British Isles and Europe, Tommaso has cemented his reputation designing gardens that are beautiful and sensitive to the landscapes, materials and people he works with.

    Joined in conversation by writer and editor Clare Foster, Tommaso will look back on key projects including work in Italy, Greece, the gardens of Château Léoube in Provence, his Chelsea show gardens in 2008 and 2004, and recent interventions within a tropical garden originally designed by Geoffrey Jellicoe, as well as reflections on his own Suffolk garden and new work at Somerleyton Hall. This livestream (which you may watch live or on demand) is sponsored by The Garden Museum, and the online option is £10. Register HERE.