Hampton Court 1999

As you walk through the Timeline Garden you are presented with miniature gardens from different parts of the world, but all on the Grenwich meridian. The gardens, and their uses, vary from a Sussex flower garden and an allotment in the UK, one brimming with beautiful flowers and the other with luscious vegetables, through a Moorish courtyard and a French potager, all very pleasing to a gardener, until finally you reach Africa. Represented in Africa are a market garden of Mali and gardens by the River Niger where the use of the garden is a necessity of life, not a pleasure. At the far end is Burkina Faso where growing vegetables means survival, here they use "magic stones" to help conserve water and to stop the soil from being eroded. And we complain about hosepipe bans!

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