{"id":1174,"date":"2017-11-13T12:14:36","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2017-11-13T12:14:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:14:57","slug":"discovering-west-london-nursery-gardeners-16-november-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"Discovering West London Nursery Gardeners, 16 November 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Val Bott&#8217;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 a wide area of England in the late 17th and 18th centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Some travelled many miles each year, visiting and advising clients and their gardeners, while others became contractors, designing and overseeing significant horticultural projects. There are some Oxfordshire connections: Thomas Greening (1684-1757), born at Great Haseley in Oxfordshire, had establsihed his nursery near the market town of Brentford by 1710, from where he obtained a series of significant aristocratic and royal contracts. His son, Robert, produced stunning designs for Kirtlington, with a naturalistic style that predated Capability Brown. <\/p>\n<p>Full details on the Oxfordshire Gardens Trust <a href=\"http:\/\/ogt.org.uk\/events_news\">website<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Val Bott&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middlesex-gardeners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nurserygardeners.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}