Can Nature Friendly Gardens Be Beautiful?
2 December 2025
Is it easy to be a nature-friendly gardener?
Celebrating the launch of the National Trust’s Book of Nature Friendly Gardening, the Garden Museum hosts a conversation between five professional gardeners who have all been on their own journeys to adapt the way they garden in light of the twin climate and biodiversity crises.
Matthew Pottage, Head of Horticulture and Landscape Strategy at The Royal Parks, is charged with ensuring some of London’s finest parks are managed in a way that ensures they are resilient for the future, offering maximum benefit for both people and wildlife.
Kate Bradbury is a garden writer and broadcaster who specialises in wildlife gardening. She is a patron for various nature conservation charities and runs regular garden wildlife safaris in the ‘rewilded’ garden at Knepp.
Sean Harkin is Head Gardener at the Inner Temple Gardens in London where he has been evolving the historic Garden to combine biodiversity and beauty.
Rebecca Bevan is the National Trust’s Specialist for Environmental Horticulture and the author of their new book on Nature Friendly Gardening which encourages readers to make big changes to the way they garden.
Sheila Das, Head of Gardens at the National Trust, will chair the conversation, bringing insights of her own from her deep love of food growing and nurturing soil health.
All the panellists have small gardens of their own in which they seek to find a balance between their aspirations for a fabulous, photogenic space with their responsibility to the natural world.
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2 December 2025
Is it easy to be a nature-friendly gardener?
Celebrating the launch of the National Trust’s Book of Nature Friendly Gardening, the Garden Museum hosts a conversation between five professional gardeners who have all been on their own journeys to adapt the way they garden in light of the twin climate and biodiversity crises.
Matthew Pottage, Head of Horticulture and Landscape Strategy at The Royal Parks, is charged with ensuring some of London’s finest parks are managed in a way that ensures they are resilient for the future, offering maximum benefit for both people and wildlife.
Kate Bradbury is a garden writer and broadcaster who specialises in wildlife gardening. She is a patron for various nature conservation charities and runs regular garden wildlife safaris in the ‘rewilded’ garden at Knepp.
Sean Harkin is Head Gardener at the Inner Temple Gardens in London where he has been evolving the historic Garden to combine biodiversity and beauty.
Rebecca Bevan is the National Trust’s Specialist for Environmental Horticulture and the author of their new book on Nature Friendly Gardening which encourages readers to make big changes to the way they garden.
Sheila Das, Head of Gardens at the National Trust, will chair the conversation, bringing insights of her own from her deep love of food growing and nurturing soil health.
All the panellists have small gardens of their own in which they seek to find a balance between their aspirations for a fabulous, photogenic space with their responsibility to the natural world.
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