Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, a landscape architect and historian, reveals some obscure and eccentric English garden-makers who created intensely personal and idiosyncratic gardens between the early seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Working from his newly published book English Garden Eccentrics (Mellon/Yale, 2022) he regales the audience with tales of miniature mountains, excavated caves, assembled architectural fragments and fossils, and displayed exotic animals. More than curiosities, these gardens were a form of autobiography and expressed the singularity of the characters behind them.