In Conversation: Chelsea Physic Garden

Friday 25th July, 6-7pm

In Understorey, artist and writer Anna Chapman Parker records in prose and line drawings a year spent looking closely at weeds, ours most ubiquitous and accessible plants. Meditating too on other artists and writers who have depicted them, she explores the value of these often overlooked species, both for the environment and our own wellbeing.

In The Kindest Garden, leading landscape architect and horticulturalist Marian Boswall shows how to create a garden that is both a beautiful sanctuary for yourself and a place where nature can thrive. Taking lessons from landscape regeneration at all scales, she demonstrates how to enrich biodiversity and make an active impact on the health of our planet and ourselves.

Both books emphasise the insights to be gained from looking closely at local wild plants or weeds – for what they can tell us about our soil and wider environment, and as a means of finding connection and stillness in uncertain times.

In this conversation, Anna and Marian will share their own experiences of observing these plants, offering practical suggestions and inspirations from art, nature and horticulture.

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