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On a rainy day, I decided to visit the Geffrye Museum on Kingsland Road. After all, visiting a museum is an excellent pastime when it is raining, but as could be expected, it was rather busy inside. Outside, however, few brave souls visited the gardens and that is a shame really, as they are very nice; even when it is raining. So, if you want a quiet moment in a green space, go to the museum when the weather is not all that good and enter the garden just inside the left-hand entrance (opening times the same as the museum; see for directions here). The first thing you come across is a small area with some gravestones, then a bit of lawn and next the walled herb garden. From there, go through the exit on the right and wander into the period gardens; each one is provided with an information panel. Below my pictures, complete with raindrops.
entrance to the herb garden
herb garden
Echinacae pururea
Elizabethan knot garden
Elizabethan ‘useful’ garden
Paeonia mascula
Mid-late Victorian greenhouse
Informal Edwardian garden
Hope you enjoyed that!
Website of the museum here.
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Thanks for this post…these gardens and the museum are great! I recently went in search of some private gardens in Spitalfields here’s my article.
https://anneguygardendesigns.wordpress.com/category/spitalfields-gardens/
Thanks for your comment Anne, much appreciated. Had a look at your blog and added it to my Bloglovin’ feed; the small gardens are indeed wonderful. The post on the London moggies is also very nice and I saw that you included the Coade stone lion. Perhaps you like to read more about the history of the lion and the factory, see here: https://baldwinhamey.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/the-south-bank-lion/
Beautiful! I visited the Museum in the winter but haven’t seen the garden this year – thank you for letting me visit with your photographs