Gardening Collection (page 9)

Wheelbarrow and tools on a cutout greetings card. (1 of 2) Date: circa 1890s

Jardins (Arbres d ornement) - trees for ornamental gardens
A variety of trees and flowering shrubs suitable for ornamental gardens including rhododendrons and wisteria. Date: 1930

Approved School - Gardening
Boys digging with forks and spades in the garden of an unidentified Approved School. Date: circa1945

View from the garden, Sidcot School, Somerset
View from the garden, Sidcot School, Winscombe, North Somerset, an independent Quaker school. Date: circa 1920s

Cadburys Happy Families - Miss Roses
Cadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Miss Roses the Gardeners Daughter. circa 1950

Find the Fault card No. 9 -- red watering can. circa 1930s

Autumnal Borders at Munstead Wood (Grade I listed), the home of influential British horticulturist, garden designer, artist and writer Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932)

Vintage seed packet: Candytuft
A beautiful Candytuft seed packet from the Burts Seeds Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

Vintage radish seed packet
A radish seed packet from the Card Seed Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

Vintage tomato seed packet
A tomato seed packet from the Card Seed Company, New York Date: c. 1910

Vintage seed packet: Pansy
A beautiful Pansy Royal Mixture seed packet from the Burts Seeds Company, New York. Date: c. 1910

How to start an allotment during WW1
Diagram in The Sphere advising readers how to start work on a raw piece of ground in order to create an allotment. The Food Production Department was keen to get around 500

Busy Gardeners by Muriel Dawson -- two little girls with their watering cans tend a colourful flowerbed. Date: 1947

Manor or country house garden, with workers. Copper-plate illustration from Richard Bradley, New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. Frontispiece. Date: 1739

The results of getting married
Beautiful postcard by Lance Thackeray entitled Amateur Gardening - A Labour of Love. A handsome gent pushes his lovely wife around their walled garden in a green wooden wheelbarrow

Gardening, Inebriates Reformatory, Lewes, Sussex
Inmates gardening at the Southern Counties Inebriates Reformatory at Lewes, Sussex. The institution, housed in the former Lewes Union workhouse

The Treasure by George Studdy
Bonzo, the comic canine creation of George Studdy, digs up countless bulbs which have been carefully planted in a garden border in an effort to retrieve his bone

Wardian case with ferns
A Wardian case containing ferns

Frances Wolseley Mowing
The Honorable Frances Wolseley mowing the lawn of her garden assisted by a friend pulling the lawnmower along by a cord

Gertrude Jekylls Garden fork and lawn shears placed on an old mill grindstone at Munstead Wood (Grade I listed), the home of influential British horticulturist, garden designer

Cadburys Happy Families - Mrs Roses
Cadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Mrs Roses the Gardeners Wife. circa 1950

Cadburys Happy Families - Master Roses
Cadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Master Roses the Gardeners Son. circa 1950

Cadburys Happy Families - Mr Roses
Cadburys Cocoa Cubs Happy Families - Mr Roses the Gardener. circa 1950

John and Norman Jewell, Mahe, Seychelles
John and Norman Jewell, Mahe Island, Seychelles, Indian Ocean. 1915

Old Maid card game - Jumbo the Gardener. circa 1950s

Watneys Happy Families - Miss Barrel, the Coopers Daughter. circa 1930

White flowers on trowels on two cutout greetings cards
White flowers on garden trowels on two cutout greetings cards. Date: circa 1890s

Susi - with straw hat and gardening tools. 1950s

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