July 7, 2020 Rhodds Farm, Creeping Avens, Henry Compton, Frances Stackhouse Acton, William Curtis, Sir Walter Scott, The Dormouse and the Doctor by AA Milne, The Himalayan Garden by Jim Jermyn, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Rhodds Farm | National Garden Scheme
“The garden at Rhodds Farm was started from scratch in 2005 by Cary Goode. It is a challenging site with overhanging woods on the north side and open pasture to the south. A fabulously peaceful spot with a natural garden where plants are allowed to self-seed.
The formal garden with dovecote houses 50 white doves while glorious mixed borders, double herbaceous borders of hot colors, large gravel garden, several ponds, arboretum, wild flower meadow and 13 acres of woodland.”
Botanical History On This Day
1713 Bishop Henry Compton, devoted plantsman of Fulham Palace, filled his episcopal garden with over a thousand exotic plants and sponsored botanical explorers like John Bannister in Virginia.
1794 Frances Stackhouse Acton, daughter of Thomas Andrew Knight, grew into an accomplished botanist and botanical artist, assisting her father in his breeding work and illustrating his horticultural experiments.
1799 William Curtis, apothecary-turned-botanist, founder of the London Botanic Garden, and creator of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, which brought him, in his own words, “pudding and praise.”
1832 Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford returned to his beloved home on the Tweed, arranging his bed to overlook the river, trees, and walled garden he had so carefully planted and embellished.
Unearthed Words
The Dormouse and the Doctor by A.A. Milne: A whimsical garden favorite from A.A. Milne, in which a dormouse debates delphiniums, geraniums, and chrysanthemums with a very determined doctor.
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Today’s Botanic Spark
1930 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Last Garden Walk, when the creator of Sherlock Holmes was found collapsed outdoors, clutching his heart with one hand and a single white snowdrop in the other, was later buried beside his garden hut at Windlesham.
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