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- Born in
- London
- Awards
- 🏆 Veitch Memorial Medal🏆 Victoria Medal of Honour
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Trending topics shown first"To devise these living pictures with simple well-known flowers seems to me to be the best thing to do in gardening."
"The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives."
"Paint upon a palette, delighting our eyes with soul-satisfying pictures, a treasure of well set jewels a sympathy with growing things, fashioned into a dream of beauty, a place of perfect rest and ref…"
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1843
Born
Birth1932
Died
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