The Virtual Garden

This website is a sketchbook exploring ideas for The Virtual Garden, a project which will connect green spaces in 5 cities in a shared VR environment.
Parks and gardens never seemed more important than during covid lockdowns, more precious than ever under threat from global warming. Not just critical in our physical environment, the lungs of our planet, but plants are also deep rooted in our culture, history and science.
The virtual garden will present conversations about plants between people from five different cities, experts and amateurs, gardeners and park visitors.
This site contains ideas, themes and ambitions for The Virtual Garden project, a prototype virtual garden experience and a botanical print garden, a journey through botanical space that features botanical prints, and details about the botanical printing processes used to produce the plant illustrations on this site.