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

smaller group copy

horticultural heroes, Roses

Plant patenting – a false dawn?

Celery

horticultural heroes, Vegetables

The French prisoner who taught us to eat celery

Loz (L. B. Tettenborn) - cropped version of the origin picture. Female House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) feeding its fledged chick.

My garden, Roses

Sparrows – avian rats or gardener’s friend?

A machine for spraying fruit crops.

Killing garden pests the Victorian way

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

Original Bramley apple tree dying

David Austin Rose: Tranquility 2012

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?

© 2020 The storyteller garden

Theme by Anders Norén