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Herbaceous Collection

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Woman in a Kent Garden

Woman in a Kent Garden
A Kentish Garden A woman picks flowers from large herbaceous borders in a typical English garden

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Ann Hathaways Garden

Ann Hathaways Garden
Anne Hathaways Cottage and garden. Packed herbaceous borders lead up to the cottage

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Herbaceous border, Rotten Row, Southport, Lancashire

Herbaceous border, Rotten Row, Southport, Lancashire - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Herbaceous Border, Regents Park, London Parks

Herbaceous Border, Regents Park, London Parks by W. Carruthers Affleck

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Wintergreen, periwinkle and dogs bane species

Wintergreen, periwinkle and dogs bane species
Umbellated wintergreen, Pyrola umbellata, herbaceous periwinkle, hairy gonolobus, Gonolobus hirsutus, broad-leaved amsonia, Amsonia latifolia, and tutsan-leaved dog s-bane, Apocynum androsaemifolium

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Herbaceous smilax, Smilax herbacea

Herbaceous smilax, Smilax herbacea. Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims Curtiss Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1817

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Herbaceous heath, Erica herbacea

Herbaceous heath, Erica herbacea. Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1787

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: The garden at Harleyford Manor, Great Marlow. A central path

The garden at Harleyford Manor, Great Marlow. A central path, leading to an arch in a bridge, is banked with broad, colourful herbaceous borders Date: circa 1908

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Kingcup or Marsh Marigold

Kingcup or Marsh Marigold
Decorative flower study by Jeannie Foord, of a Kingcup or Marsh Marigold a herbaceous plant. 1899

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Floral Border and Rose Pergola - Popular 1930s scheme

Floral Border and Rose Pergola - Popular 1930s scheme
Floral Border and Rose Pergola - Popular 1930s garden scheme/layout/design. Date: 1939

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Fumaria officinalis. Colored engraving

Fumaria officinalis. Colored engraving

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Home Gardening magazine, August 1932

Home Gardening magazine, August 1932
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring a herbaceous border in a garden with an impressive display of gladioli (gladiolus) flowers. Date: 1932

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Colocasia sp

Colocasia sp
Plate 989 from the John Reeves Collection of Botanical Drawings from Canton, China. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Gardener

Gardener

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Shakespeares Garden

Shakespeares Garden
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE His garden in Stratford-on-Avon. A packed herbaceous border leads up to the house

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Primula Frondosa (Leafy Primrose)

Primula Frondosa (Leafy Primrose), a herbaceous perennial of the Primulaceae family. It has mauve-pink flowers with yellow centres

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Dodecatheon Meadia

Dodecatheon Meadia (Shooting Star, American Cowslip, Indian Chief, Pride of Ohio, etc), a small herbaceous perennial with pale pink petals

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Plan for a garden, 1954

Plan for a garden, 1954
A 1950s garden laid out with flowering and evergreen shrubs, a rock garden, roses, herbaceous borders and a sundial

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Posing in the Garden

Posing in the Garden
Smiling young woman poses in stilettoes amongst the herbaceous borders

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: 1950S Flower Picker

1950S Flower Picker
Young woman in denim trousers & hot pink, sleeveless sun top carries a shallow flower basket full to the brim with freshly picked blooms

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Tiny Tales for Tiny Folk back cover

Tiny Tales for Tiny Folk back cover
A child pulls a toy wagon along a garden path alongside a herbaceous border

Background imageHerbaceous Collection: Tiny Tales for Tiny Folk

Tiny Tales for Tiny Folk
Bold and colourful front cover of a childrens book from the 1920s showing two small little girls sat by a herbaceous border in a garden


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