The Home of Charles Darwin, Down House garden

English Heitage have recreated the gardens at Down House as the Darwins would have seen them. It was the home of Charles Darwin for the last 40 years of his life. It is here that he worked on his theories of evolution and wrote `On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection´. Although small in size many elements of bigger gardens exist including bedding, shrubberies and mixed borders, an orchard, and a traditional kitchen garden and greenhouse. Victorian plant varieties are used throughout the garden adding to the period feel. The gardens are of special merit due to the scientific work Darwin undertook within them.

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