British Flower Week 2025 Featuring Cedric Morris' Flowers in a Portuguese Landscape
We were delighted to meet Her Majesty The Queen at the Garden Museum during the opening of British Flowers Week 2025, where the Queen was photographed in front of Flowers in a Portuguese Landscape, one of the highlights of our current exhibition on Cedric Morris.
For the team now reviving Benton End’s garden, abundant flower paintings like this one are invaluable guides. They offer rare insight into Morris’ plant palette, his inspiration from foreign countries, and his instinctive style of combining forms, colours, and textures. Morris’ planting allowed for the self-expression of the species; boards and boundaries were not a prominent feature at Benton End, but rather a celebration of the wild and sprawling nature of each individual bloom he cultivated.
