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Diaries unlock garden secrets
Ref: 2010/214/DS
Lawrence Johnston’s diaries, cutting from ‘The Journal’, 29/9/2005, with pictures of head gardener Glyn Jones and Property manager Mike Beeston. From Allan Warmington’s effects.
Ernest 'Chinese' Wilson garden in Campden
Ref: 2017/077/NS
Combination newspaper cutting about Ernest Wilson and the garden in Chipping Campden. nd
Ernest Wilson -biographical information
Ref: 2007/288/DS
Copy of information from the Kew Gardens web-site, with copy of photograph and portrait
Ernest Wilson Garden, clearing site, photograph
Ref: 2006/060/P
Reg Martin and another (unnamed Cotswold Warden) cutting down trees to clear the site of the Ernest Wilson Garden.
Ernest Wilson Memorial Garden
Ref: 2006/062/DS
Cutting from the North Cotswold Standard, February 10th, 1982. Cotswold Wardens helping in Campden’s memorial garden project. Shows Reg Martin helping to clear the site.
Ernest Wilson Memorial Garden, plans, 1982.
Ref: 2003/134/M
Maps showing the layout, walling, etc. of the Ernest Wilson Memorial Garden, various scales, September 1982. (9 sheets of tracing paper and 1 of paper). Reduced photocopy of the proposed entrance gate to the garden. Drawings by Ray Leigh.
Ernest Wilson's life.
Ref: 2009/064/DS
Copy of 2 pages from ‘The Garden’, February 2008. Details of Wilson’s life. Plant Hunter profiles featuring Ernest Wilson (1876 – 1930), 2 web pages including a photo.
Farmhouse and Cottage Gardens 1580-1660
Ref: 2011/177/DS
Pub: Bristol, Stuart Press (Historical Management Associates Ltd), 1996. ISBN: 1858040787 From estate of Francis Burns
Garden History
Ref: 1991/002/B
The Journal of the Garden History Society, Autumn 1989, Vol. 17 No. 2.pp. 109-121, The Gardens of Campden House, Chipping Campden, by Paul Everson.
Gardens in Campden, TV film
Ref: 2007/104/DVD
Japanese TV programme, 2006, about gardens in Campden through the seasons, featuring Chambers of Kiftsgate, Harts of Campden, Kathleen Greenwood, Andy Doran, Tim Sexton and others. Letter from Yoko Oshima to Carol Jackson.
Historic Gardens of England: 1929 project
Ref: 2018/051/DO
Identifying gardens in the 129 black/white glass lantern slides taken by Louise Newton, founding member of the Ridgefield Garden club, on the 1929 GCA trip to England. These slides have been donated to the Smithsonian AAG. 129 slides have been donated, including the non-garden cover slide.
Lawrence Johnston The Creator of Hidcote
Ref: 2010/233/B
Pub. Hidcote Books, 2010. A biography of Lawrence Johnston. Inscribed by the author.
Lawrence Johnston, the Creator of Hidcote
Ref: 2013/025/B
Revised edition of the biography of Lawrence Johnston first published in 2010 [see 2010/233/B]. Inscribed by the author.
Lawrence Johnston: The Creator of Hidcote. by Graham S. Pearson. pub 2015
Ref: 2015/
Lawrence Johnston: The Creator of Hidcote. by Graham S. Pearson. pub 2015 Hidcote Books031/B
Opening of the Memorial Garden
Ref: 2009/158/DS
Cuttings from a newspaper, ‘Evesham Journal?’ about the opening of the Ernest Wilson Memorial Garden, pictured are Roy Lancaster, Mrs Abbott and the Mayor of Campden.
Searching for Lawrence Johnston, the Creator of Hidcote
Ref: 2010/151/CD
CADHAS Lecture 18/2/2010, by the author of ‘Hidcote: the garden and Lawrence Johnston’.
The Ernest Wilson Memorial Garden
Ref: 2009/352/DS
4 Leaflets about the Ernest Wilson Memorial Garden, n.d.
The Gardens of Campden House, Chipping Campden
Ref: 1992/021/DS
A photocopy of an article by Paul Everson in “Garden History”, Vol. 17, No. 2, Autumn 1989.
The Plant Hunter
Ref: 2008/017/DS
Ernest Wilson, Chinese Puzzle. Chapter 7 of “The Plant Hunter”. Born in Chipping Campden 1876, Lower High Street.
The rare tree hunter of Chipping Campden
Ref: 2008/104/DS
Ernest Wilson, cutting from the Evesham Journal, 19/10/1972.
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