The storyteller garden - Garden history – the stories behind the plants in a small Nottinghamshire garden

horticultural heroes, Roses

Plant patenting – a false dawn?

horticultural heroes, Vegetables

The French prisoner who taught us to eat celery

My garden, Roses

Sparrows – avian rats or gardener’s friend?

Killing garden pests the Victorian way

The original Bramley apple tree: from www.storytellergarden.co.uk

Original Bramley apple tree dying

horticultural heroes, Roses

Shaky start: The launch of the first national rose show

Dean Reynold's home, Caunton Manor

horticultural heroes, Roses

How Reynolds Hole fell in love with roses

Weigela

horticultural heroes, My garden

Weigela – plant hunting in China

French roses: Mme Alfred Carriére

My French wives

Mistle thrush

Fruit, My garden

Which came first, the mistletoe or mistle thrush?

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