The volunteer gardeners have made a wonderful job and have re-planted a section of the garden.
The artists have all created pieces connected with the history of the garden.
This piece by Abi Spendlove is about the roots put down by Lord Bute, the garden's founder, in the course of his life. Each piece was connected with a different location.
More delicate roots in the vinery.
This installation piece by May Down was a recording and included interviews with Land Army girls who worked on the estate during WW2. I would have loved to have had a rummage in the suitcase which was full of vintage items including the corsets.
This was Sally's installation. She was inspired by seeing large chrysalises while visiting London zoo. She has used monoprints of plants and planting lists from the garden's archive to make a set of cocoon shapes from silk and wax suspended on cottons along one of the glasshouses. Sally's inspiration is the transient traces left over the generations within the garden.
These carnations below were created by Suzanne Page, they made from copies of letters written by Lord Bute.
This is an installation by ceramic artist Nici Ruggiero
I thought you'd enjoy these details.
Finally I spotted these rather splendid cuckoo pint/lords and ladies/Arum maculatum lily stems which were glowing in the shadows.
Thank you for all of your good wishes for my Etsy shop. Now I've got that sorted I feel I can get back to creating - more later.
Have a good week,
Jill
