Gardeners 1650-1850

by Val Bott on 01/08/2010 · 0 Comments

presenting the inventive nursery gardeners of Brentford, Chiswick and nearby Middlesex Parishes, 1650-1850

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Pleasure Gardens & Pineapple Stoves: Gardeners at Chiswick House 1700-1850

by Val Bott on 07/05/2019 · 0 Comments

I will be talking about Chiswick House gardeners in the past at 11.30am on Sunday, 19 May, a Chelsea Fringe event and the first open day of the year in the Chiswick House Kitchen Garden. Admission is free You can meet the Chiswick House gardeners of today, and there will be a beekeeping demonstration, a […]

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The Gardens of Gunnersbury, 6.30pm, 10 December 2018

by Val Bott on 12/11/2018 · 0 Comments

As one of the London Parks & Gardens Trust’s Winter Lectures Val will be presenting the story of the gardens at Gunnersbury Park in West London. Val is co-author with James Wisdom of Gunnersbury Park: the Place and the People (Scala Publications). The historic core of the gardens was created for Sir John Maynard’s Palladian […]

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John Asslett, Nurseryman of Old Brentford

by Val Bott on 04/10/2018 · 0 Comments

John Asslett died on 29 November 1748 and the inventory of his property was completed by 19 January 1749 (1). In Old Brentford, the southern half of Ealing Parish, most of the nursery gardens lay between the High Street (the road between London and the West) and the area to the north now crossed by […]

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The Greenings, royal gardeners, 12 February 2018

by Val Bott on 06/01/2018 · 0 Comments

Val will be presenting the history of the Greening family of Brentford End at a joint meeting of the Richmond Local History Society and the Kew Society. Two of the estates which today make up Kew Gardens were at one period managed by two brothers of the second generation of this family business, though they […]

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