We are delighted to announce that Fiona Davison has now agreed to give her talk scheduled for March on 19 October 2020. 
Postponement of Society meeting on 16 March 2020
After a careful discussion we have agreed with our speaker that it would be best to postpone her talk on The Hidden Horticulturists. We believe it is a wise precaution to avoid infection while the nature and rate of the spread of Corona Virus is unpredictable.
This means that we will not have a B&CLHS meeting on 16 March. We are sorry to disappoint members and others who were planning to come along but we hope to reschedule the talk as part of our future programme.
The Hidden Horticulturists, 16 March 2020
7.30pm, Monday 16 March 2020
POSTPONED TO 19 OCTOBER 2020
at the Chiswick Memorial Club,
Bourne Place, London W4 2EL
Fiona Davison, Head of RHS Libraries & Exhibitions and author of the award-winning book of the same title, presents an illustrated account of her research. The young men who trained at the Horticultural Society’s Chiswick garden grounds in the 1820s wrote brief notes about themselves in an exercise book. Using these, Fiona Davison has traced the stories of some of these gardeners, revealing their careers from grand estates to suburban gardens, their success and failures (and even crimes), as well as following their connections across the world.
