Curated by Nicholas Alfrey, Stephen Daniels, Mary Horlock, Martin Postle, and Ben Tufnell
Without Gertrude Jekyll and Sissinghurst, Britain would not be Britain. Celebrating the bicentenary of the Royal Horticultural Society, Tate Britain offers an eccentric bounty of garden-inspired art ranging from trysting places and melancholic inscriptions to bursts of poppies that might have taught Victorians how painting, like flower arrangement, should be about beauty. This anthology of roughly 125 works promises to be neither conservative nor predictable. If Constable and Turner, Spencer and Nash are here, so is Beatrix Potter. And to shake up the garden-club members, flowers and rocks will be brought up-to-date by young photographers as well as by such alchemists as Ian Hamilton Finlay and Marc Quinn.
