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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Discovering West London Nursery Gardeners, 16 November 2017

by Val Bott on 13/11/2017 · 0 Comments

Val Bott’s talk at Kellogg College in Oxford will look at half a dozen gardening families in Brentford and Chiswick. They improved, grafted and propagated new stock, including the Williams pear. Some wrote books, issued prints and promoted their businesses profitably while a few failed miserably. They supplied plants, bulbs and seeds to estates over […]

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The Greenings, Royal Gardeners, 19 September 2016

by Val Bott on 15/09/2016 · 0 Comments

I shall be giving a talk to the Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society on the evening of Monday, 19 September. This takes place at The Chiswick Memorial Club, Bourne Place, London W4, just off Dukes Avenue, at 7.30pm, and the Society welcome non-members at their talks, admission free. The talk will tell the story […]

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Pleasure Gardens & Pineapple Stoves, 28 January 2016

by Val Bott on 06/01/2016 · 0 Comments

I shall be giving a talk on the gardeners of Chiswick House at St Nicholas Church, Chiswick on 28 January. The event is hosted by the Friends of St Nicholas and the Friends of Chiswick House. It will provide a glimpse of the gardeners who are usually ignored – not the well-known characters like Kent, […]

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