Media library

As well as the books on display, the exhibition features The Speaking Garden a multimedia installation inspired by the library’s collection and the gardeners of Leeds. Filled with colourful projected visuals and a soothing soundscape from Buffalo Sound Design, the installation seeks to create a ‘garden of voices’ by inviting local growers to submit their own audio clips about what gardening means to them.

On display as part of the free exhibition is a fascinating collection of beautifully illustrated manuals, compiled by some of history’s most esteemed horticulturalists. Between their antique covers can be found centuries of accumulated wisdom about the best ways to grow fabulous fruit and vibrant veg as well as colourful flowers and fragrant herb patches. Among the treasured tomes on display, pictured here with Antony Ramm, is a copy of The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, written by famed Elizabethan herbalist John Gerard.

On display as part of the free exhibition is a fascinating collection of beautifully illustrated manuals, compiled by some of history’s most esteemed horticulturalists. Between their antique covers can be found centuries of accumulated wisdom about the best ways to grow fabulous fruit and vibrant veg as well as colourful flowers and fragrant herb patches. Among the treasured tomes on display, pictured here with Antony Ramm, is a copy of The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, written by famed Elizabethan herbalist John Gerard.

On display as part of the free exhibition is a fascinating collection of beautifully illustrated manuals, compiled by some of history’s most esteemed horticulturalists. Between their antique covers can be found centuries of accumulated wisdom about the best ways to grow fabulous fruit and vibrant veg as well as colourful flowers and fragrant herb patches. Among the treasured tomes on display, pictured here with Antony Ramm, is a copy of The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, written by famed Elizabethan herbalist John Gerard.

On display as part of the free exhibition is a fascinating collection of beautifully illustrated manuals, compiled by some of history’s most esteemed horticulturalists. Between their antique covers can be found centuries of accumulated wisdom about the best ways to grow fabulous fruit and vibrant veg as well as colourful flowers and fragrant herb patches. Among the treasured tomes on display are a series of stunning illustrated guides to British flowers, such as Jane Loudon’s British Wild Flowers, written in around 1850, pictured here.

On display as part of the free exhibition is a fascinating collection of beautifully illustrated manuals, compiled by some of history’s most esteemed horticulturalists. Between their antique covers can be found centuries of accumulated wisdom about the best ways to grow fabulous fruit and vibrant veg as well as colourful flowers and fragrant herb patches.

On display as part of the free exhibition is a fascinating collection of beautifully illustrated manuals, compiled by some of history’s most esteemed horticulturalists. Between their antique covers can be found centuries of accumulated wisdom about the best ways to grow fabulous fruit and vibrant veg as well as colourful flowers and fragrant herb patches.

On display as part of the free exhibition is a fascinating collection of beautifully illustrated manuals, compiled by some of history’s most esteemed horticulturalists. Between their antique covers can be found centuries of accumulated wisdom about the best ways to grow fabulous fruit and vibrant veg as well as colourful flowers and fragrant herb patches. Among the treasured tomes on display are a series of stunning illustrated guides to British flowers, such as Jane Loudon’s British Wild Flowers, written in around 1850, pictured here held by Antony Ramm.

On display as part of the free exhibition is a fascinating collection of beautifully illustrated manuals, compiled by some of history’s most esteemed horticulturalists. Between their antique covers can be found centuries of accumulated wisdom about the best ways to grow fabulous fruit and vibrant veg as well as colourful flowers and fragrant herb patches. Among the treasured tomes on display, pictured here with Antony Ramm, is a copy of The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, written by famed Elizabethan herbalist John Gerard.

On display as part of the free exhibition is a fascinating collection of beautifully illustrated manuals, compiled by some of history’s most esteemed horticulturalists. Between their antique covers can be found centuries of accumulated wisdom about the best ways to grow fabulous fruit and vibrant veg as well as colourful flowers and fragrant herb patches. Among the treasured tomes on display, pictured here with Antony Ramm, is a copy of The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, written by famed Elizabethan herbalist John Gerard.

On display as part of the free exhibition is a fascinating collection of beautifully illustrated manuals, compiled by some of history’s most esteemed horticulturalists. Between their antique covers can be found centuries of accumulated wisdom about the best ways to grow fabulous fruit and vibrant veg as well as colourful flowers and fragrant herb patches.

On display is Batty Langley’s New Principles of Gardening. Penned in 1728, the book is filled with meticulous instructions and diagrams on how geometry can be applied to the design of gardens as well as detailed pointers on the best ways to plant and care for fruit trees. Leeds Central Library is hoping that public donations gathered through the course of the exhibition will enable the book to be repaired and restored to its former glory.