Siân Rees @PlantingDiaries

Gardener, blogger, enthusiast for roses, topiary, heritage plants, photography and digital archives. plantingdiaries.com Joined December 2017

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Guy Moreton @guy_moreton

5 years ago

I studied with Keith Arnatt (1930-2008) in the early 1990s. Keith’s interest in photography came through conceptual art, and tutorials were often spent discussing photography’s ability to transform ‘something’...and his obsession with Samuel Palmer @profdanhicks #MuseumsUnlocked

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Charlotte Frost @C_Frost3

2 years ago

[do see the photos] Keith Arnatt’s Gardeners | Planting Diaries plantingdiaries.com/2023/12/30/kei… #gardenhistory

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Siân Rees @PlantingDiaries

2 years ago

This extraordinary collection of hand coloured glass lantern slides has recently been added to the RHS digital platform. Commissioned by Edith Carroll Perkins and taken by Eleanor Malby in the 1920s. 292 images of English gardens, some now lost @Missvolare

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Siân Rees @PlantingDiaries

2 years ago

The late summer planting at Lytes Cary Manor in Somerset is looking great just now. Here's a link to my account of my visit last week: plantingdiaries.com/2023/09/07/las…

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Siân Rees @PlantingDiaries

2 years ago

Read about dahlia shows in the 1830s, as recounted by Joseph Harrison in The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine. From small scale events in pubs to exhibitions at Vauxhall Gardens. plantingdiaries.com/2023/07/26/dah…

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Ella Ravilious @Ravilious2

2 years ago

Eric Ravilious was born on this day in 1903. I'm delighted to receive an advance copy of my new book on his work, which is due out on the 28th Sept thanks to @thamesandhudson and @V_and_A...

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Siân Rees @PlantingDiaries

2 years ago

Street decorations in Cardiff Road, Aberaman by Geoff Charles (People's Collection Wales) @HouseHistorian1 I wonder if you know anything about the tradition of gathering greenery to decorate houses for the miners' fortnight holiday in South Wales?

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Siân Rees @PlantingDiaries

2 years ago

New blog exploring the new RHS Digital Collections, launched last month. plantingdiaries.com/2023/05/17/exp…

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Loughborough Road SW9 history @RoadSw9

3 years ago

Nelly Roberts, orchid artist died #OTD 1959. Lived all her life and painted 1000s orchids on Loughborough Road. We placed a plaque on her unmarked grave and her house last year. Guided walks to visit both and hear about other amazing people who made south London home. Thread 👇

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The Gardens Trust @thegardenstrust

3 years ago

🌱Where to start with #gardenhistory? Here's our top 5 blogs and podcasts for those that have just discovered garden history - do you have a favourite that we haven’t mentioned? Let everyone know in the comments 👇 And don't forget to like, share and save! 🌿

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Witney Antiques @Witney_Antiques

3 years ago

Mary Ann Everard worked her beautiful sampler at Stickney School in Lincolnshire, one of several extant samplers from the school. She depicted the lodges of Burghley House. Mary Ann Everard may have married Thomas Taylor in Stickney on 6 November 1828

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Siân Rees @PlantingDiaries

3 years ago

Described by rose experts Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix as ‘some of the very best of all garden roses’, this is the story of Rev J H Pemberton's hybrid musk roses. Still available and worth growing today. Link: bit.ly/3JdRmuM #RoseWednesday

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Siân Rees @PlantingDiaries

3 years ago

The Butterfly-Haunted Italian Garden, Glamis Fay Godwin 1931 - 2005 National Galleries Scotland Love the interplay between the textures of the tightly clipped topiary, the avenue of pleached trees, the hedges, grass and the shadows. #InternationalWomansDay

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pat havers @pathavers

3 years ago

Remembering some of my horticultural heroes @waterperry on International Women’s Day. Beatrix Havergal, Joan Stokes and Mary Spiller @thegardenstrust @waterperrysimon #InternationalWomensDay #horticulturalheroes #waterperrygardens #gardeningtwitter

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Heritage Seeds UK @HeritageSeedsUK

3 years ago

This beautiful #seedpacket from our #HSL archives comes from Cuthbert's Seeds - set up in the 18th century, when, it's said, James Cuthbert travelled to London to seek his fortune. The company's colourful #seed packets were sold for decades in Woolworths. Do you remember them?

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Siân Rees @PlantingDiaries

3 years ago

Children wearing their St David's Day leeks (1st March, 1957) Photograph by Geoff Charles National Library of Wales Happy #stdavidsday

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nyago @nyago_2016

3 years ago

#メジロ #whiteeye #鳥 #野鳥 #bird #wildbird #サザンカ #花 #flower

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Ravilious @Ravilious1942

3 years ago

Shepherd’s Cottage, Eric Ravilious, 1934. It depicts a cottage near Furlongs at Firle, East #Sussex. The original artwork, once thought lost, now appears to be in a private collection but is on display at @TownerGallery.