This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Worshipful Company of Gardeners
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St Dunstan's Garden
It's not possible to read all the text but the 1345 date confirms that our (n...
Wall fountain
To commemorate the gift of this wall fountain by the Master, wardens, assista...
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Worshipful Company of Gardeners
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850th anniversary and Plant a Tree Year
Taxus baccata (English yew) planted by the Rt. Revd. Bishop R. W. Stannard, M...
Other Subjects
Chelsea Flower Show
Originally known as the 'Royal Horticultural Society Great Spring Show', it was first held at the RHS garden in Kensington. It moved to The Royal Hospital, Chelsea in 1905 and now takes place annua...
Vicar's Oak
The tree is mentioned as early as 1583. According to Alan Warwick in his book ‘The Phoenix Suburb’, it stood at the high point in Norwood where four parishes (Battersea, Camberwell, Croydon and Lam...
Queens Wood, Highgate
50 acres. Prompted by a campaign led by Henry Reader Williams Hornsey Council purchased Queen's Wood (then called Churchyard Bottom Wood) in 1898 for "the free use of the public forever". The cha...
Major Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, CBE, TD
Financier and horticulturalist. He was born on 2 January 1916 in Westminster the second of the four children of Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942) and Marie Louise Eugénie de Rothschild née B...
Person, Armed Forces, Commerce, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
Sir Joseph Hooker
Botanist and explorer. Born Joseph Dalton Hooker, son of Sir William, at Halesworth, Suffolk. He travelled widely around the world, bringing back many species of plants to Britain. Became director ...