Tag Archives: flowers

Easter Lilies

Posted on 08/04/2023 by The Garden History Blog

Do a quick google search on traditional flowers for Easter and you’ll find what comes up are lots of florists websites telling you about the “Easter Lily” and while other flowers such as daffodils and tulips are suggested too it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged flowers, nurserymen, plant breeding, plant hunters, religious | Leave a comment

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

Posted on 05/10/2019 by The Garden History Blog

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged flowers, Royal Academy, Royal Horticultural Society, seed companies | 2 Comments

“The Agreeable Occupation of Imitating Nature”

Posted on 24/08/2019 by The Garden History Blog

Today’s post is quite long but needs just a very short introduction… What do the thousands of white roses at Queen Victoria’s wedding have in common with mediaeval nuns, the philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s head, what your great-aunt Agatha probably had … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged flowers, Great exhibition, Jeremy Bentham, Mintorn, Queen Caroline, Queen Victoria, wax | 1 Comment

Mrs Delany’s Petticoat

Posted on 07/07/2018 by The Garden History Blog

I write about all sorts of strange things on this blog but can’t think of much more obscure than this week’s starting point which is a Georgian firescreen which turns out not to be just a firescreen but part of … Continue reading →