When the Horticultural Society of London was founded in 1804, it had no garden of its own. Yet within two decades, it would open a pioneering site at Chiswick that would shape British horticulture for generations
Acknowledging the important role that Indigenous and local peoples played in the work of the Horticultural Society of London’s plant collecting expeditions.
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.