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People

Percy Cane

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

Elsie Wagg

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

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

Cecil Pinsent and his Gardens in Tuscany

Eleonora Tonon takes us on a tour of Cecil Pinsent’s famous 20th Century gardens in Tuscany, from their inspiration to their creation.

People

Miss Dora Stafford

Miss Dora Stafford was admired in 1930s society gossip columns but scandalised newspaper editors with her ‘solo’ plant hunting exploits at the age of 40.

Periods

Interwar Gardens

The Interwar Years (1918–1939) marked a pivotal shift in garden design, as landscapes responded to both personal grief and broader cultural transformation.

Topics

Electroculture

Long before solar panels and smart irrigation, a different kind of energy was being quietly trialled in gardens across Europe: electricity.

People

Ellen Wilmott

In a time when women were expected to stay in the drawing room, Ellen Ann Willmott (1858–1934) was digging in the dirt, often quite literally reshaping the landscape of British gardening.