‘I Grew Yam on My Veranda’: Inside London’s Little-Known Windrush Gardens

Takeaways:

• At the Garden Museum in Lambeth, UK, the Sowing Roots exhibition explores how the Caribbean horticultural heritage has enriched British gardening.
• The exhibition shows stories from 15 individuals through interview extracts, photographs and artefacts.
• “We hope to have unearthed the inventiveness, creativity and power at the heart of Caribbean gardening that has shaped families, communities and empire across time and space” said Ras Prince Morgan, resident of London, who was born in Rock River in Clarendon, Jamaica

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