Meet gorgeous Lady Lennox - believed lost for 110 years and now confirmed found by the Fruit ID committee! Local pomologist Denis Smith discovered it growing at Burghley and I slowly managed to unravel its provenance. Absolutely thrilled our submission has been successful.

Hillfield Nursery, Norfolk, displaying every apple variety they grow

“Good old Norfolk boys” in a beet field at Sustead, North #Norfolk c 1930's. (Photo from Les Fisher on flickr) #ruralhistory 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

English painter Jean Cooke, The Greenhouse (1955) #womensart

Golden Crab Apples, Eliot Hodgkin, 1957, private collection.

I wonder if the keen English gardener ever thought that the fashionable ‘Californian Giant’ they planted as a sapling in 1865 would eventually take over their whole garden 🤭🌲

First published in 1956, and written by Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 6th baronet (1897-1988, brother of the eccentric Dame Edith), this remains an excellent bibliographical record of two centuries of finely-illustrated flower books from around the world.

photo archive keeps giving up its treasure..The Loudon Tomb, known as the "Floating Coffin," is a distinctive monument in the churchyard of St John the Baptist Church, Pinner, Harrow. Erected in 1843 by horticulturalist John Claudius Loudon to his parents, William and Agnes

Gardener at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

Over 400 acorns sown so far, collected from veteran oaks nearby, with lots more to go! English oak (Quercus robur) supports >2,500 species, making it one of Britain’s most important trees for biodiversity — yet it’s far less common than it should be in Liverpool 🌱❤️

Back to yesterday's nursery rhyme theme. Local tradition holds that “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush” began at HMP Wakefield, where Victorian women prisoners walked each morning around a mulberry tree in the yard. To keep their children, then allowed to stay with them,

'Greenhouse Interior,' (c1935) shows Stanley Spencer's common practice at the time of this painting; a closely observed and highly detailed flower painting, in this case fuchsias, against a receding background.

'October' from Eliot Hodgkin's 'The Months', 1951. Cooking apples take centre stage, flanked by grapes, fungi and the season's first celery and Brussels sprouts. There's a button chrysanthemum, fluffy Old Man's Beard, a shiny conker and a reddening leaf of Virginia Creeper.

Decio is probably the oldest commercially available apple in existence, dating back to Roman times. Even more delectable (but quite tender) is Mela Carla, which originated in Byzantium and was named after the Emperor Charlemagne.

Autumn Morning Mist Isleworth: watercolour

Rosehips ~ Anna Perlin

Season Of Mists Isleworth: acrylic on linen

Morning Frost The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on linen

CoventGarden, 1970s

'The Garden', Charles Mahoney, 1950

A giant of a sweet chestnut for #thicktrunktuesday Growing in Bagley Wood, #Oxford, it is festooned with the prickly hedgehogs of its chestnuts - long-prized as a source of sweet, nutty flour🌰🦔🌰 Sweet chestnuts have been growing in the UK since at least the 12th century💚