Scottish botanist George Don was the Horticultural Society’s second plant collector. He travelled along the western coast of Africa and the eastern coasts of the Americas in the 1820s.
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.
Find out more about Lilian Snelling, “the greatest botanical artist of her time”, and explore hundreds of her artworks held at the RHS Lindley Library.
There are 2,500 varieties of apple in the UK, and a thousand varieties of pears. How did we organise and record so many fruit varieties before the invention of photography?
Stroll through the Millenium Glasshouse at RHS Garden Wisley and you will encounter a living marvel of horticulture: a staghorn fern which has been part of the RHS collection for over a century.
Discover the remarkable paintings of Harmanis de Alwis, the Sri Lankan botanical artist whose artworks continue to inform botanical scholarship today, over a century after his death.
Did you know that strawberries as we know them are a relatively modern ‘invention’, and that the RHS played an important role in turning them into a British Summertime favourite?