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Quiz Monkey |
| English (Shropshire–based) rose breeder and writer, creator of almost 120 cultivars: died in 2018 aged 92 |
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David H. C. Austin | |
| Lincolnshire–born botanist who named Botany Bay after going there with Captain Cook in 1771; largely responsible for establishing Kew Gardens |
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Sir Joseph Banks | |
| First Director–General of the Royal Horticultural Society; editor of its Gardeners' Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers; retired 1993 |
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Chris Brickell | |
| Naturalist in the Garden (RHS magazine), Nature Notes (Daily Telegraph) |
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Robert Burton | |
| Botanist and designer, best known for creating a garden near Elmstead Market, Essex |
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Beth Chatto | |
| Conifer Abies forrestii: named after |
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George Forrest | |
| 17th century Scottish–born botanist – superintendent of the royal gardens at Kensington and St James's Palace, under George III: gave his name to a shrub that bears yellow bell–shaped flowers in early Spring |
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William Forsyth | |
| BBC TV Gardeners' World: main presenter |
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Geoff Hamilton | |
| English botanist, discovered many species in Antarctica; succeeded his father as Director of Kew Gardens, 1865 |
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Joseph Dalton Hooker | |
| Founder of the Garden History Society (1964) |
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Peter Hunt | |
| British property developer (1829–1904): developed Merton Park (now in the London Borough of Merton) as a garden suburb; endowed a horticultural institute, which still bears his name; but his name is best known through a formula for compost, developed at the institute in the 1930s and released into the public domain |
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John Innes | |
| Famous artist and gardener: created numerous landscapes for the works of the architect Edwin Lutyens; he designed her home at Munstead Wood, near Godalming in Surrey, and their joint designs were highly influential in the Arts and Crafts movement |
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Gertrude Jekyll | |
| Presenter of BBC's Gardeners' Question Time – retired in 1993 |
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Clay Jones | |
| Derby, 1839: one of the first public parks in the West, created by |
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John Loudon | |
| Victorian traveller and amateur botanist who donated her botanical paintings, and a gallery to put them in, to Kew Gardens |
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Marianne North | |
| Married couple who created the famous garden at Sissinghurst Castle, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, (their home, from 1930 until her death in 1962) | Wife |
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Vita Sackville–West |
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Harold Nicolson | |
| Cultivated the Cavendish banana – which accounts for the vast majority of bananas consumed in the western world – while working as head gardener at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire (seat of the Dukes of Devonshire, family name Cavendish) in the 1820s and 1830s |
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Joseph Paxton | |
| Masterminded the restoration of the Lost Gardens of Heligan and the Eden Project |
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Tim Smit | |
| Name shared by a father and son: the father (c. 1570–1638) was head gardener to the Earls of Salisbury and Duke of Buckingham; his son (1608–62) succeeded him as head gardener to Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria; they introduced many plants that are now garden staples, including a genus that is named after them; commemorated by a gravestone in the churchyard of St–Mary–at–Lambeth, which is now the Museum of Gardening History |
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John Tradescant | |
| East End doctor who invented a plant transporting case named after him |
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Nathaniel Ward | |
| Famous English rose grower (1898–1977), known for his flamboyant appearance and opinions: established a company with his "misanthropic" brother Alfred in 1919, which introduced the Princess Elizabeth rose in 1927 |
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Harry Wheatcroft | |
| Nickname of plant finder Ernest Wilson (collected over 65,000 specimens on his expeditions to Asia) |
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China Wilson | |
| Horticultural Society of London became Royal Horticultural Society |
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1861 |
| RHS Dictionary of Gardening: first published |
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1951 |
| Sir Harold Hiller's world–famous gardens and arboretum |
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Ampfield, Hants |
| Garden opened by the RHS in 2020 in Worsley, Salford |
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RHS Garden Bridgewater |
| Great Stove – built 1836–40 by Sir Joseph Paxton – covered an acre; then the World's largest building |
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Chatsworth |
| 1994: BBC Gardeners' Question Time team defected to |
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Classic FM |
| Black Hamburgh grapevine – planted by Capability Brown |
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Hampton Court |
| Pagoda built for Princess Augusta in the 1760s |
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Kew Gardens |
| Rose named after the Gloucestershire garden started in the 1920s by Heather Muir |
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Kiftsgate |
| Monty Don's Herefordshire garden, from which he has presented Gardeners' World since his return to the programme in 2011 |
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Longmeadow |
| Kew Gardens: official name |
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Royal Botanic Gardens |
| Chelsea Flower Show: organised by the |
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Royal Horticultural Society |
| Gardens near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, created by poet and writer Vita Sackville–West and her husband, author and diplomat Harold Nicolson (who lived there from 1930 until her death in 1962) |
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Sissinghurst Castle |
| Landscape gardens started in 1741 by banker Henry Hoare who dammed a river to form a lake |
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Stourhead |
| National Trust property in Cheshire, venue of an annual flower show held by the RHS in July |
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Tatton Park |
| Savill Garden – named by George VI after deputy ranger Sir Eric Savill |
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Windsor Great Park |
| Annual book listing gardens open to the public in aid of charity |
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The Yellow Book |
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