Opens (mainly private) gardens to the public to raise money for charity. Grew out of a need to provide finances for retired district nurses.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
National Gardens Scheme
Commemorated ati
Queen Mother Rose Walk
This Rose Walk has been given by friends of the National Gardens Scheme to ma...
Other Subjects
Lady Winifred Fortescue
Writer and actress. Born as Winifred Beech in a Suffolk rectory. Died France. 1914 she married John Fortescue (1859-1933, librarian, archivist at Windsor Castle and British Army historian), despit...
Marian Mangini Brown
Lived in Hertford Street near (Old) Park Lane in the 1870s. Married but possibly a widow. Did not approve of the opening up of Hamilton Place but still gave money for the Poets' Fountain to be erec...
J. E. Stanley Lewis
Born in Ottawa. Ottawa's longest serving mayor, 1936 to 1948. The photo shows him in 1946 the year of the planting of the tree that he gifted but we don't think he was at the event.
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