Tag Archives: Royal Horticultural Society

Kensington goes Italian

Posted on 19/09/2020 by The Gardens Trust

Last week I wrote the background story of the Royal Horticultural Society’s magnificent but short-lived gardens in South Kensington, and today I want to follow up with an account of the gardens themselves designed by William Andrews Nesfield. When I sat … Continue reading →

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Andrew Murray & the Lost Gardens of Kensington

Posted on 12/09/2020 by The Gardens Trust

Who was Andrew Murray I can hear you asking and how did he lose a garden, especially one in Kensington?  Well, of course he didn’t actually personally  lose the garden, but he did record it before it was lost.  A … Continue reading →

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Hats off to Hyde Hall

Posted on 25/07/2020 by The Gardens Trust

A couple of weeks ago, as the lockdown started to lift and gardens began tentatively to re-open, I was taken to Hyde Hall, the Essex garden of the Royal Horticultural Society. I’ve been several times before and have always come … Continue reading →

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The Daffodil King of Tooting

Posted on 14/03/2020 by The Gardens Trust

Inspiration for this week’s post came from daydreaming & looking out of the window and noticing some daffodils coming into flower.  I  remembered that ages ago I wrote a couple of posts about their  history:  The Daffodil most dainty and … Continue reading →

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Winifred Walker: “The most famous of all flower painters”

Posted on 05/10/2019 by The Gardens Trust

If I ask you to name the most famous of all flowers painters I very much doubt you’d reply Winifred Walker,  yet that’s how she was described by a national newspaper a century ago in 1919. The description might be a … Continue reading →

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