Acknowledging the important role that Indigenous and local peoples played in the work of the Horticultural Society of London’s plant collecting expeditions.
In the elegant drawing room of a Wiltshire stately home now lost to time, a story unfolded that links a group of talented sisters, an art tutor to royalty, and the beloved novelist Jane Austen.
John Damper Parks was the Horticultural Society’s fourth plant collector, and had a particular interest in collecting camellias, chrysanthemums and azaleas.