For this group of talks we have asked researchers from various parts of England to share their work on commercial nurseries large and small and those who ran them. These businesses were active mostly from the late seventeenth century to the twentieth century and were wide-ranging in the goods and services they provided. In this less-explored area of garden history these talks will illuminate all the fascinating details of the flourishing nursery trade, the customers and the plants they sold.

This series is part of a longer programme of talks for autumn/winter 2021/22 on Commercial Plant Nurseries, Plant Hunters and Pioneers

This ticket is for this individual session and costs £5, and you may purchase a ticket for other individual sessions, costing £5 via the links below (where you may also read more information on the individual talks), or you may purchase a ticket for the entire course of 3 sessions at a cost of £28 via the link here.

Please note the slightly earlier start time of 6pm.

Attendees will be sent a Zoom link 2 days prior to the start of the talk, and again a few hours before the talk. A link to the recorded session (available for 1 week) will be sent shortly afterwards.

Week 1. Nov 1: George London and the Brompton Park Nursery. Part of a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Week 2. Nov 8: The Greenings of Brentford End – Georgian royal gardeners. Part of a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Week 3. Nov 15: Supplying the ‘Nobility and Gentry’ and the ‘Floral Public’: The Norwich Nurserymen and the Provincial Nursery Industry, c.1750-1860. Part of a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Week 4. Nov 22: The nursery of the Armstrong family of Hampshire. Part of a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Week 5. Nov 29: Daniel Grimwood of Kensington & the Great Geranium Robbery. Part of a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Week 6. Dec 6: Thomas Backhouse, Brother of the More Famous James: The Early Years (1815-1854) of the Backhouse Nursery, York. Part of a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

Week 7. Dec 13: Caldwell’s Plants and People. Part of a series of 7 online lectures, £5 each or all 7 for £28.

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Plant Nurseries in England - Norwich Nurserymen