Tag Archives: John Claudius Loudon

Joseph Knight & his Exotic Nursery

Posted on 10/10/2015 by The Garden History Blog

We tend to think of gardeners being poor – unless of course they’re celebs on the box – and it’s hard to think of many gardeners in history who became rich.  But there are exceptions and one such was Joseph … Continue reading →

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Mr Loudon & a second-rate suburban villa

Posted on 05/09/2015 by The Garden History Blog

As I am sure regular readers will have noticed I’m a great fan of John Claudius Loudon, the energetic Scotsman who  tried to bring information about gardens, horticulture and agriculture [and indeed everything else!]  to the widest possible audience in the … Continue reading →

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Night Soil and other euphemisms…

Posted on 11/07/2015 by The Garden History Blog

We generally  think of the Victorians as very proper and respectable,  when even the  the legs of the piano were covered up,  and no risqué or unpleasant subjects were ever raised in polite society. So  it was a bit of a shock to … Continue reading →

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The Great Geranium Robbery… part 2…and other plant thefts

Posted on 13/06/2015 by The Garden History Blog

This post is a continuation of last week’s, and is the  second half of the account of the trial of Charles Fairfield  in 1795 on charges of the theft of rare plants from Daniel Grimwood’s nursery in Kensington…. and then I’ve also  taken … Continue reading →

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The ‘smallest clever man I ever knew”….

Posted on 23/05/2015 by The Garden History Blog

So said John Ruskin of Edward Cooke who was mentioned in the post of May 2nd about Stumperies. Ruskin—a fellow enthusiast for the natural sciences—went on to say that Cooke was ” full of accurate and valuable knowledge in natural history … Continue reading →

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