Directory of History Resources

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Subcategories

• Botanic Gardens and Arboreta
• Brown, Capability
• Courses
• Finlay, Ian Hamilton
• Jekyll, Gertrude
• Journals
• Lost Gardens of Heligan
• Paxton, Joseph
• Repton, Humphrey
• Sackville-West, Vita

Resources in This Category

• Garden History Society

  http://www.gardenhistorysociety.org/
  Society promoting the study of the history of gardening and the conservation of historic gardens. Publications, research, archives and book reviews.

• Historic Gardens Foundation

  http://www.historicgardens.org/
  Charity set up to link everyone concerned with the preservation, restoration and management of historic parks and gardens. Includes an archive of magazine articles.                       

• Joseph Dalton Hooker

  http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/collections/joseph-hooker
  A leading nineteenth century botanist, plant collector, close friend of Charles Darwin and director of Kew Gardens.

• London Parks Discovery Project

  http://www.parkexplorer.org.uk/
  Educational resource for teachers and children, from the London Parks and Gardens Trust. Covers the boroughs of Enfield, Greenwich, Newham, and Wandsworth only.

• Museum of Garden History

  http://www.gardenmuseum.org.uk/
  The recreation of a historic knot garden and the history of British gardens and plants are included as is a virtual visit to several exhibits at the museum.

• Sisley Garden Tours

  http://www.sisley.co.uk/gardeners-plantsmen-garden-designers/
  An alphabetical directory of many gardening personalities down the ages.

• The Association of Garden Trusts

  http://www.gardenstrusts.org.uk/
  National organisation representing garden trusts. Activities, articles and archive of newsletters.

• The Pulham Legacy

  http://www.pulham.org.uk/
  James Pulham and Son were eminent landscape gardeners of the 19th and early 20th centuries, remembered for the spectacular rock gardens they created in many country estates and RHS Wisley.

• Upton Grey Garden

  http://website.lineone.net/~uptongrey.garden/
  The famous fully-restored 1908 Gertrude Jekyll garden in Upton Grey, Hampshire.

• Walled Kitchen Gardens Network.

  http://www.walledgardens.net/
  Association celebrating walled kitchen gardens. Background, advice, pictures, events and register of gardens.

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