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Rhubarb Forcers at the Oxford Botanic Garden.

Miss Willmott's filmy ferns

Gertrude Jekyll's Munstead Flower Glasses

Thomas Andrew Knight and the Pomona Herefordiensis

Miss Willmott's daffodils

The botanical illustrations of Elizabeth Twining

'Menabilly': Daphne du Maurier's real Cornish garden

Trade card of 'James Gordon, Seeds Man', c.1770.

‘Exhibition of apples in the Great Vinery of the Royal Horticultural Society, Chiswick, October 4 to 25, 1883’.

'The Mistletoe Seller', by Myles Birket Foster from 'The London Illustrated News', 1854 As I now live in Herefordshire, surrounded by apple orchards mostly supplying the local cider industry, it occurred to me to write something during this Christmas and…

'Lily Pool', Plate 16 from Ellen Willmott's book of her own photographs titled 'Warley Garden in Spring and Summer', published 1909 Those of us who research and write about the famous gardener, Miss Ellen Willmott (1858-1934), and spend a lot of our free…

Plate XLV from 'The Herefordshire Pomona’, vol. 2, 1876-1885 “There is no fruit, in temperate climates, so universally esteemed, and so extensively cultivated, nor is there any which is so closely identified with the social habits of the human species as…

‘Iron Winter Garden for T.W.

‘Group of Hybrid Iris: 1.

Selection of plants offered for sale in a Veitch catalogue of the 1890's Introduction During the 19th century, plant collecting in new and exciting areas of the world increased on a grand scale with nurserymen, botanic institutions and private individuals…

The first Conservatory at the White House by Harriet Lane, built in 1857.

The story of the 5th Earl of Castlewellan's Head Gardener, Thomas Ryan

Plate I from 'A History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals' by Philip Henry Gosse, 1860 Introduction If you've read my blog about the Belgian botanical journal, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe , you may remember that when reviewing the vol…

"Embothrium Coccineum".

'Garcinia mangostana' (the mangosteen), watercolour by Deborah Griscom Passmore, 1909 – said to be agricultural explorer David Fairchild's favourite fruit.

One of Miss Ellen Willmott's few existing 'autochromes' c.1908.