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
The Society’s horticultural exhibitions have come a long way since a Mr Charles Minier brought along a potato to a meeting in 1805. Explore our history of the Chelsea Flower Show.
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.
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.
This collection of hand-coloured glass lantern sides reveals a lost world of some of England’s finest houses and gardens, captured before the Second World War