The daffodil is one of our most iconic flowers. The appearance of its cheerful yellow blooms in our gardens, parks and woodlands announce the arrival of spring and hopefully brighter days to come.
John Damper Parks was the Horticultural Society’s fourth plant collector, and had a particular interest in collecting camellias, chrysanthemums and azaleas.
Acknowledging the important role that Indigenous and local peoples played in the work of the Horticultural Society of London’s plant collecting expeditions.
This collection of hand-coloured glass lantern sides reveals a lost world of some of England’s finest houses and gardens, captured before the Second World War