A tour of Charles Darwin’s Gardens
Take a tour of the vibrant gardens of Down House in Kent, once home to Charles Darwin and his family, with head gardener Antony O’Rourke. Discover Darwin’s ‘living laboratory’, which helped formulate his theory of evolution.
Garden Highlights
Watch Darwin's mulberry tree coming into leaf
Watch the famous mulberry tree in the gardens at Down House, Darwin's home, come into leaf in the springtime. You can see the tree on the centre right as it gradually turned to green over a period of some six weeks in spring 2018. Look out for some dramatic sunsets and wet weather, too!
This tree has been in place since Darwin owned the house. His children would climb out of their bedroom window and down the trunk to join him at his work in the gardens. Although the heavy tree is now supported by an iron prop, it continues to provide mulberries each summer.