Karl Theodor Hartweg was the Horticultural Society’s seventh plant collector, spending several years travelling around Central and South America between 1836 and 1843.
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.
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?
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.
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?