Museum of Gardening
Children's Gardening Exhibits
These fantastic string puppets from the 1952 BBC TV series 'Flower Pot Men' featured in 'Watch with Mother' and repeated regularly for more than twenty years. Our toy exhibits Bill, Ben and 'Little Weed' will return to the museum next year and are a great favourite of our curator Clive Gravett who watched them as a five-year-old, potentially inspiring his enthusiasm for gardening!
Introduced by mower manufacturer H C Webb & Co Birmingham, a child size working lawn mower, we have a couple in our collection unused in original packing. Modelled here by Molly aged 9 months.
These fantastic string puppets from the 1952 BBC TV series 'Flower Pot Men' featured in 'Watch with Mother' and repeated regularly for more than twenty years. Our toy exhibits Bill, Ben and 'Little Weed' will return to the museum next year and are a great favourite of our curator Clive Gravett who watched them as a five-year-old, potentially inspiring his enthusiasm for gardening!