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For the “use of Ladies, Gentlemen and Gardeners”: Curtis’s Botanical Magazine
'Iris Persica (the Persian Iris)' by James Sowerby. Plate 1 from the first issue of 'The Botanical Magazine or Flower-Garden Displayed'...
gardenhistorygirl
Nov 17, 20207 min read
The Wardian Case – preventing damage to plants by “monkeys and parakeets”
Detail from ‘A Primrose from England’ by Edward Hopley, 1855 This painting, A Primrose from England, by the artist Edward Hopley was...
gardenhistorygirl
Nov 8, 20206 min read
The 'first' Chelsea Flower Show: the Royal International Horticultural Exhibition of May 1912
The 'first' Chelsea Flower Show
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Nov 5, 20206 min read
The beauty of early Japanese plant catalogues
Detail from the front cover of L. Boehmer & Co.’s catalogue for 1899-1900 In this blog, I'm concentrating on one of the earliest of these...
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Oct 31, 20204 min read
Nature’s own shades of colour
Nature's own shades of colour
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Oct 24, 20207 min read
A prickly tale: Eryngium giganteum Miss Willmott’s Ghost
A prickly tale: Eryngium giganteum Miss Willmott's Ghost
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Oct 19, 20206 min read
Great Maytham Hall's 'real' Secret Garden
"and the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles."
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Oct 16, 20205 min read
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