England's gardens, filmed in 1941 as wartime propaganda for the British Council, touring the country's private plots, public parks, and cottage gardens to make the case that this is a nation of gardeners even as it fights a war. Five minutes in, the narration quotes Andrew Marvell's seventeenth-century poem 'The Garden' - "Annihilating all that's made, / To a green Thought in a green Shade" - pairing wartime propaganda with old English verse. The film was made alongside a companion piece, World Garden, by the same crew, using the same title-card style. For decades only one print was known to exist, and it turned up in the New Zealand Film Archive before the British Film Institute brought it back to Britain. There is no interview footage or narration beyond the period voiceover, just color shots of English horticulture assembled as a short piece of homefront morale-building, the kind the British Council made by the dozen to show the world how Britain lived.