Harold Nicolson Archives

November 21, 2019 Dancing with Bees, the Garden Works in Winter, Jan Gronovius, Albert Burrage, Harold Nicolson, A Potted History of Vegetables by Lorraine Harrison, Tchotchke Tidy Up, and the First Garden TV Show

Today we celebrate the botanist who named the very first plant for his mentor Carl Linnaeus, and we celebrate the 160th birthday of one of the country’s wealthiest orchidologists and the founder of the American Orchid Society. We’ll hear some garden poetry on leaves and November. We Grow That Garden Library with a book from one of…

Eternal Spring Today is the birthday of the diplomat Harold Nicolson who was born on this day in 1886. In 1930, Sissinghurst Castle – at least what was left of it – was bought by Harold Nicolson and his wife, Vita Sackville-West, who restored the house and created the famous garden, which was given to…