The tale of how a group of passionate plant collectors, botanists and explorers turned Britain into a nation of gardeners. The cast includes Peter Collinson, who brought the American wilderness to British parks; botanists Carl Linnaeus and Daniel Solander; and Sir Joseph Banks, who turned Kew into a storehouse of Empire.
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Public lecture by Andrea Wulf, author of The Brother Gardeners. Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession'
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Andrea Wulf, author of The Brother Gardeners. Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession'