Stories from the garden – Stories

UK Rose Society at 150

Mistletoe, the birds and kissing

Fruit, My Garden, Stories

The amazing ‘Conference’ pear

Who was ‘Alister Stella Gray?’

Roses, Stories, Who was... ?

By Any Other Name – November 2025

By Any Other Name, By Any Other Name, Roses, Stories

Dahlia mania, Keynes and an unusual party at Stonehenge

Who was Mme Hardy?

Roses, Who was... ?

When gardeners planted bomb shelters

Stories, Vegetables

Constance Spry – David Austin’s first rose

Flowers, Roses, Stories, Who was... ?

The ‘Peace’ rose – celebrating 90 years

Horticultural Heroes, Roses, Stories

Crown Princess Margareta and the garden of Sofiero

The world’s oldest gooseberry show

Who was Mme Grégoire Staechelin?

Roses, Stories, Who was... ?

Where do clematis come from?

Flowers, My Garden, Stories

How do roses get their names?

The rose agent

Horticultural Heroes, Roses, Stories

By Any Other Name – May 2025

By Any Other Name, Roses, Stories

Murray Radka – the rose rescuer rescued by roses

Horticultural Heroes, Roses, Stories

Cyclamen – a cure for more than just the winter blues

Flowers, My Garden, Stories

Caroline Francklin – The rose looking in at the window

Flowers, Horticultural Heroes, Roses, Stories, Who was... ?

A rose named ‘Just Joey’?

Roses, Stories, Who was... ?

Lie back and think of England

Flowers, My Garden, Roses, Stories

The man who grew too much

Horticultural Heroes, Roses, Stories

Sissinghurst and Vita’s roses

Flowers, Roses, Stories

By Any Other Name – November 2024

By Any Other Name, Stories

Roses and climate change

Christopher Lloyd and Great Dixter

Flowers, Horticultural Heroes, Stories

The Swedish National Gene Bank saving rare plants

Flowers, Roses, Stories

Who was Mme Isaac Pereire?

Pushing up daisies – lawn maintenance history

My Garden, Stories

The church of the rose and thorn

Meet American rose breeder Tom Carruth

Horticultural Heroes, Roses, Stories

The Briar Rose paintings

How Reynolds Hole fell in love with roses

Horticultural Heroes, Roses, Stories

Should I plant scarlet pimpernel?

Flowers, Stories

A fond farewell for Dickson roses

Pirri pirri – How a Scottish royal visit triggered an invasion

Flowers, Stories

The Empress and the postman

Horticultural Heroes, Roses, Stories

The man who invented the steam-powered lawnmower

Horticultural Heroes, Stories

Pirates, spying and the discovery of weigela

Horticultural Heroes, My Garden, Stories

By Any Other Name – May 2024

By Any Other Name, Roses, Stories

Are dandelions weeds?

Flowers, My Garden, Stories

Cherry Ingram

Horticultural Heroes, Stories

Amelanchier

Flowers, My Garden, Stories

The primrose

Flowers, Stories

Wardian cases

Horticultural Heroes, Stories

Dot to Dot

Horticultural Heroes, Roses, Stories

The curious Blackwells

Horticultural Heroes, Stories

Who was ‘Mme Alfred Carrière’?

Horticultural Heroes, Roses, Stories

How to smell roses – by the perfumer who taught David Austin

Thomas Edison, plant patenting and a New Dawn

Horticultural Heroes, Roses, Stories

The French prisoner who taught us to eat celery

Horticultural Heroes, Stories, Vegetables

Sparrows – avian rats or gardener’s friend?

My Garden, Roses, Stories

Killing garden pests the Victorian way

Original Bramley apple tree and the attempts to save it

Shaky start: The launch of the first national rose show

Horticultural Heroes, Roses, Stories

When potatoes were illegal

Horticultural Heroes, Stories, Vegetables

The Buddle bush

Flowers, Stories

Roses – great if you smell like a goat

Storyteller garden: Every garden has tales to tell

My Garden, Stories

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