Darwin's Garden: Down House and the Origin of Species

Five years after returning from his trip around the world, young Charles Darwin became the owner of Down House in Kent, England, where he moved his growing family, far away from the turmoil and distractions of London. He would live there for the rest of his life, and it would become the place where he began work on his masterpiece, On the Origin of Species.



For almost twenty years, he used the garden around him as a laboratory. In the orchard, he conducted experiments on pollination. He buil...