We are delighted to announce that in May we will be hosting a walking tour around the Natural History Museum’s Evolution Garden, perhaps one of London’s most exciting new landscape architecture schemes.
The new gardens are now open after a five-year redevelopment plan that transforms the five-acre garden into an urban haven for people and wildlife.
On the east side of the gardens, the Evolution Garden takes visitors on a geological journey from the Precambrian Period including 2.7 billion-year old rock, through the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian and Carboniferous periods, all the way to the present, with each metre of pathway, from the start of the Cambrian period, marking five million years of history.
Each of these geological periods is represented by one or more rocks incorporated into the garden landscape, with all but two sources from across the UK. Using rocks formed during particular moments in Earth’s history, as well as plants, sculptures and brass inlays, the Evolution Garden tells the story of life on Earth.
Our walking tour is aimed at landscape architects and landscape designers and will be led by the project’s Landscape Architect, Neil Davidson of J&L Gibbons and Paul Kenrick, Principal Researcher at the Natural History Museum.
It will be a great opportunity to be inspired as well as gain some invaluable insights into how to utilise the UK’s rich geology for your own landscape schemes.
When: Thursday 1st May, 10 am
Where: The Natural History Museum, Evolution Garden
Cost: This event is free of charge
To register to attend, please email sara@stonefed.org.uk.
