Xmera / Garden History

Explorations into the History of Plants, Gardens & Gardeners, Nurseries & Nurserymen

Gardens

• Loudon's Gardens of Gloucestershire
• Batsford Park
• Images of Kew Gardens in 1905
• The plants grown in the vicarage garden of Bitton, Gloucestershire in the 1830s
• Westonbirt

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Plants

• The Introduction of the Fuchsia into English Gardens
• The Early History of the Pelargonium in England

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Nurseries

Durdham Down Nursery, Bristol William Maule & Co., Bristol Cypher's Exotic Nursery, Cheltenham Jessop's Nursery, Cheltenham Holbert Family, Gloucester

Spa Nursery, Gloucester James Wheeler and his sons J. D. Wheeler J. C. Wheeler & Son George Winfield, Gloucester

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Gardeners

• Henry Thomas Ellacombe and the creation of the Bitton vicarage garden
• Henry Nicholson Ellacombe, a 19th century Gloucestershire plantsman
• Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, baron Redesdale (1837-1916)
• Sir George Lindsay Holford, Herbert George Alexander and the Orchids of Westonbirt