Tag Archives: nurseryman

The Empress’s Greenhouse

Posted on 11/07/2020 by The Gardens Trust

Last week’s post about Josephine and the landscape at Malmaison left out any discussion of the plants grown there, so today’s post is going to make up for that, because it was plants that really captured her imagination. That meant, of … Continue reading →

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William Caparne : painter and plantsman

Posted on 03/02/2018 by The Gardens Trust

The love of plants runs in the blood, or so it might appear from the life of William Caparne teacher, painter, plantsman and iris fanatic. A very private man, but who travelled widely in Europe and met and was … Continue reading →

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On Don and Don and Don and Don…

Posted on 21/10/2017 by The Gardens Trust

I know Monty may be the only Don you’ve heard of but this is not a post about him. Instead its about some of his 18th and 19thc ancestors who were also well-known horticulturists and botanists. The family came from the … Continue reading →

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John Weeks: Horticultural Architect

Posted on 16/09/2017 by The Gardens Trust

I’m always amazed by the way that some now fashionable upmarket residential areas have a different, more working class past often with horticultural connections. Belgravia, for example, is built on the site of the Neat Houses, once London’s largest concentration … Continue reading →