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  • Tuesday, September 29, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Eastern – The Amazing Lady P Book Launch, Online

    Sonja Waites launches her book The Amazing Lady P: The Inspiring Story of Pulbrook & Gould and their English-grown Flowers. Join the Garden Museum on September 29 to hear Sonja in conversation with Shane Connolly to recall the extraordinary success of Pulbrook & Gould, one of London’s most celebrated floral decorators, drawing on recollections from former staff, clients, and the suppliers of their distinctive English-grown flowers.

    Founded in the 1950s by society hostess Susan, Lady Pulbrook and her Constance Spry-trained partner Rosamund Gould, the firm quickly became the leading choice for Society events: weddings, funerals, balls and private parties, with a client list that included the Royal Family. As passionate gardeners, their signature natural style drew on flowers sourced from country-house contacts and English growers at Covent Garden Market.

    Sonja (Lady Pulbrook’s sister-in-law) became a partner when Rosamund Gould retired in 1974. Her book offers a unique insight into running a flower business in an era when individual style truly mattered, and when women founding and leading a celebrated enterprise of this kind was still a rare achievement. £10 Livestream. Register at https://www.gardenmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/book-launch-the-amazing-lady-p-with-sonja-waites-and-shane-connolly/?utm_source=Newsletter+Subscribers&utm_campaign=d81fc0bba9-Newsletter+-+01.08.26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-be7878cebb-439296746&mc_cid=d81fc0bba9&mc_eid=03faa403db

  • Tuesday, May 20, 12:00 noon Eastern – Tumult in the Vase: Radical Florists in Conversation, Online

    Emily Thompson, Wagner Kreusch, Frida Kim, Françoise Ozawa & John Lim of This Humid House will be in conversation with Shane Connolly at The Garden Museum in London on May 20 at 12 noon Eastern time, during the week of the Chelsea Flower Show. All are playing a part in the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025, where their radical floral installations showcase the future of floral design.

    These artists are connected by a shared commitment to the natural world, and are led by nature to create designs that embrace the sometimes chaotic, aggressive, and subtle aspects of the living world, turning the flower vase on its head. Still, they are rooted in the great traditions of floristry.

    Hear them discuss their work, the exhilaration and challenge of the medium, and their aesthetic connections with one another, and be inspired. Book the livestream (£10) at gardenmuseum.org.

  • Tuesday, May 20, 12:00 noon Eastern – Babylon, Albion, Online

    Whoever said nature is still has not borne witness to the migration of the seasons. Join The Garden Museum and debut author Dalia Al-Dujaili in conversation on May 20 to celebrate the launch of her debut book, Babylon, Albion. In this striking exploration of identity and place, Dalia Al-Dujaili considers what it means to belong in your land. Tracing the rich heritage of both the oak and the date palm, Iraqi marshes and Loch Ness monsters, Al-Dujaili marries Arab and Islamic mythology with the English and Christian pastoral. She draws from a rich array of sources to consider in a new light the communal lush, wild – and, at times, dark – places we share.

    Dalia Al-Dujaili is an Iraqi-British writer, editor and producer based in London. She is the online editor of The British Journal of Photography. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, Dazed, GQ, WePresent, Aperture, Atmos, It’s Nice That, Elephant Art and more. She is the founder of The Road to Nowhere Magazine and in 2023 she was the Producer of Refugee Week. Dalia holds an MA Hons in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh.

    A love song to Britain, Iraq and the body of earth we hold in common, Babylon, Albion is an urgent reimaging of what it means to be native. £10 Livestream. Register at gardenmuseum.org.uk

  • Tuesday, May 13, 3:00 pm Eastern – Gardening for Wellbeing, Online

    Join The Garden Museum online at 7 PM GMT (3 pm Eastern) on May 13 to mark Mental Health Awareness Week (12-18 May 2025) as we host a panel of speakers to explore a range of personal and professional experiences that demonstrate how gardening positively impacts us.

    To those of us who garden and spend time in green space, the positive effects on emotional and mental wellbeing are undeniably clear. Published research articles make clear links between gardening’s ability to support social relationships, moderate stress, reduce anxiety and depression, and improve cognitive function.

    Chaired by Victoria Valentine, speakers including psychiatrist and psychotherapist Sue Stuart-Smith, Co-Founder of The Glasshouse, Kali Hamerton-Stove, Specialist Horticultural Instructor at Bethlem Royal Hospital, Sergio Ruano Heredero, and food writer, cook and vegetable grower Kathy Slack will reflect on how gardening positively impacts us all.  Livestream booking: gardenmuseum.org/uk £10