John Damper Parks was the Horticultural Society’s fourth plant collector, and had a particular interest in collecting camellias, chrysanthemums and azaleas.
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.
The Vegetable Garden Displayed, the RHS’s guide to growing vegetables produced for the Dig for Victory campaign, remains the Society’s most successful publication ever. Find out how the RHS helped to keep Britain fed during the Second World War.