The Museum of East Anglian Life needs your help with an exciting new photographic project! As part of our redevelopment of Abbots Hall, a Grade 2* Queen Anne house, we want to collect your pictures for inclusion in our Garden Room display.
Throughout Abbots Hall, we are investigating the ideas of home and belonging. What makes us feel at home? Can we feel at home when we are not in our houses?
This is where you come in; we want to find out just how important the garden is to our sense of home. According to the National Trust’s Space to Grow report, published earlier this year, “Over 70 per cent of the population think that spending time in gardens is important for their quality of life.”
We want to hear from you! What does your garden mean to you? How do you use your garden? Do you garden for pleasure or is it a chore? What is it that makes you proud of your bit of garden space?
We’re looking for images of all types of garden, from large ornamental gardens such as Helmingham Hall, right through to terraces and allotments. But most importantly we want pictures of you actually doing things in gardens; throwing parties, mowing the lawn, working as a gardener, having barbeques, or just relaxing on a sun lounger! These pictures will help us to understand the importance of gardens to the people of East Anglia and will form the basis for part of our Garden Room display.
If you can help, please email jed.howlett@eastanglianlife.org.uk or write to us at How Does Your Garden Grow? Museum of East Anglian Life, Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 1DL
You can also contribute images through flickr, find out more at: http://flickr.com/people/howdoesyourgardengrow
For more details Tel: 01449 612229
Website: www.eastanglianlife.org.uk