This week Christopher Woodward, Director of The Garden Museum in London, writes about the next exciting project to spread the green tendrils of the museum into the borough. We have worked closely with the museum since 2013, firstly to make the gardens that surround the tombs of the Tradescants, elder and younger, and Captain Bligh in the cloister, and then to create a small community garden in a corner of Old Paradise Gardens, a public park run by Lambeth Council, where locals can take on their own bed to grow their own produce nearby. 

Christopher has always been ambitious for the museum and has stood as a firm believer in the physical presence of green and the life it brings to the museum and the neighbouring streets beyond it. With typical dynamism, he seized the opportunity to work closely with Transport for London to make sure that the new traffic system and its surrounding pavements were punctured by green. This was no mean feat, and required jumping through many hoops of bureaucracy, but the new beds, which were planted in the spring, are already softening this harsh environment and announcing the green intent and influence of the museum.