Roger Phillips dies aged 88
Roger Phillips dies aged 88 - from Horticulture Week
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Roger Phillips dies aged 88 - from Horticulture Week
Dame Elizabeth Blackadder was a master of the art of flower painting. Here, we celebrate the best of her work
In 'Indian Botanical Art: An Illustrated History', Martyn Rix brings together botanical art of Indian origin spanning a period of 300 years, focussing on the 18th and 19th centuries.
Term it colonialism in reverse. A seminal book brings together the striking botanical art of Indian origin spanning a period of 300 years drawn mostly from original works held in the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London), that ...
G. gracilis and G. elwesii.” Hynes, who moved to Cherubeer 30 years ago, grew snowdrops in her previous Buckinghamshire garden having been given three named varieties by the late Gwladys Tonge, who was Hardy Plant Society chairman from 1987 to 1990. Those three originals, ‘Scharlockii’, ‘Viridapice’ and ‘Atkinsii’, moved to Devon and were soon joined by ‘Magnet’, ‘Colossus’ and ‘S. Arnott’. “These big and bold varieties make large clumps without self-seeding,” Hynes tells me. “My garden relies on larger clumps grown in the ground to create a backbone of white...