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People

Few people today have heard of garden designer Percy Cane. Yet at the height of his career in the 1950s, Country Life said he was as much in demand as Capability Brown had ever been.

People

The Hermitage was Elsie Wagg’s much-loved Sussex home, but her garden inspired something much bigger. In 1926, she came up with an idea that would open hundreds of gardens across England and Wales

People

In the late 17th century, Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, described gardening as her “innocent diversion”, yet this apparently genteel pastime became an ambitious enterprise of cultivation, collecting and botanical investigation.

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In 1927, something rather unusual was happening in gardens across England and Wales. Private gardens, normally hidden behind gates and walls, were opening their doors to the public – all in aid of nursing charities.

People

Without any previous experience of gardening, Margery Fish made one of the most celebrated informal gardens of the mid-20th century and used her writing skills to share what she had learnt in the process

Places

When she created East Lambrook Manor Garden, from a farmyard and a rubbish heap, Marjorie Fish developed a new cottage garden style that had a huge influence on garden owners of the time and is still relevant today

Places

The Edwardian gardens at Upton Grey Manor House in Hampshire display the talent and artistry of the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll and remain a delight to wander round and explore

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The invention and troubled introduction of the secateur in France and England as a replacement to the billhook and pruning knife

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A personal account of visiting and witnessing the remarkable restoration of one of England’s finest 18th-century landscape gardens by Tony Mott