Tag Archives: nurseryman

William Bull – Horticulture in Excelsis

Posted on 29/07/2023 by The Garden History Blog

As regular readers will know I have a soft spot for the stories of once-famous and now overlooked or even forgotten Victorian nurserymen. William Bull is another one you probably haven’t heard of, but who was absolutely pre-eminent in his … Continue reading →

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The Empress’s Greenhouse

Posted on 11/07/2020 by The Garden History Blog

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 Garden History Blog

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 Garden History Blog

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 →