Planting Collection

Girl Guides Gardening by Millicent Sowerby
Two girl guides pictured in a garden in the spring raking the grass and planting seeds

Events / Exploration / Polar
Sledge party planting British flag. Shackleton, Scott and Wilson Discovery exploration of the Antarctic

Raleigh / Potatoes / Ireland
SIR WALTER RALEIGH English navigator supervising the first planting of potatoes in Ireland

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

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

Wardian case with ferns 1857
Fern case in the shape of a small aviary with canaries. Scale of the design is three feet long, the space reserved for plants extending 10 inches on either side of the cage or aviary which is 16

Ypres Battlefield Markers and signs
Over the 40 years that we have been writing about these battlefields, there has been many attempts to signpost the places of interest

WW2, A Special Reason
An illustration of a wartime boy planting a fruit tree in order to help feed the nation during WW2. Date: circa 1940s

WW2, Wait And See
An illustration of a little boy planting a seed to help the nation's foodstuff need during WW2, his father is a Merchant Navy sailor. Date: circa 1940s

Dunfermline Railway Viaduct
The top photograph shows a railway viaduct in Dunfermline, Scotland, the bottom picture provides the same view, with additional illustrative retouching to suggest improvements in the way of planting

Low Beveridgewell, Dunfermline
A photograph which shows some countryside cottages by a steep bank in Low Beveridgewell, Dunfermline, used to highlight the potential for releasing the stream from Culvert

Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Harvesting - Encouraging the people to keep the agricultural economy moving forward, to feed the people and the army. Date: 2nd half of 20th century

Illustration, Bristlewoods, vegetable patch
Caricature illustration by Frank Reynolds, of a man and woman labouring on new vegetable patch, lifting turf and planting potatoes. Captioned, Bristlewoods see it through'

Geese invade the field where the Brownies are sowing seeds Date: 1910

Gang of men with shovels planting tomatoes, Evesham
The men all wear flat hats. In the background is a man with a horse and cart. One man has a wheelbarrow. The farm is in Evesham, Worcestershire. Date: 1907

Spanish Civil War Poster - Peasant
Poster from the Spanish General Workers Union (UGT) appealing to country workers: Peasants! The revolution is as necessary as the shoots on the vine. Date: circa 1938

Royal visit to Leicester - planting oak tree in Abbey Park
Prince and Princess of Wales (later Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark), opening the new Abbey Park by planting a young oak tree, on Whit Monday. Date: June 1882

Shakespeare Commemoration, Planting Oak on Primrose Hill
Samuel Phelps planting the young oak tree at the foot of Primrose Hill, London, to honour the English poet, William Shakespeare. Date: 23rd April 1864

Samuel Phelps planting the young oak tree at the foot of Primrose Hill, London, to honour the English poet, William Shakespeare. Date: 23rd April 1864

Civil War Poster Peasant Events Spain Posters
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NATIONALIST VICTORY/1937
Nationalists capture the sanctuary of Caradonga; the pro-Nationalist Italian reporter sees this as a triumph of patriotic heroism over barbaric atheism Date: 1937

c. 1890s South East Asia - planting a rice paddy field
c.1890s South East Asia - planting a rice paddy field

Planting rice, Japan. Vintage 19th century photograph

Scenes in the Sahara desert, Africa, 1820
Frederick Horneman reading the Koran to the Berbers of Siwa Oasis 13, a caravan greeting the Sultan of Fezzan 14, and a traveller left behind in the desert

Austrian farmers on their way to church, 18th century
Austrian farmers in Sunday Best outfits on their way to church, 18th century. Contadini dell Austria che si recano alla chiesa

Country folk. Young gardeners
Boy & girl in period costume planting flowers. Artist: Frances Brundage Date: 1903

Unknown British town scene - with Monkey Puzzle tree. An interesting early photograph of Araucaria Arucana (Monkey Puzzle Tree) which is very slow-growing

Chinese peasants planting rice in a paddy field. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence

Golden Soil: French methods of Market Gardening for England, showing scenes from the Market Garden at Thatcham, Berkshire. Date: 1908

Rice Plant - planting young rice
Chinese planted the rice seeds on cultivated flat land near the Kiang and the Yellow river, the seed was soaked in water in which a quantity of plants appear above ground in a couple of days

PLANTING IN ANTIGUA
Opening land for planting, Antigua, West Indies Date: 1833

The preliminary ploughing of fallow land, prior to afforestation, at St. Harmon, Radnorshire, Wales. Date: 1950s

John Rosss arctic expedition: Ross planting the British Standard on the true position of the Magnetic Pole. Date: 1829 - 33

Advert for Amorphophallus Campanulatus, plant seeds 1891
Amorphophallus Campanulatus, two or three feet across, with spotted stem which rises several feet and unfolds at the top an umbel of beautiful palm-like foliage which spreads out several feet like an

Freemasons planting banners outside the Porte Maillot; Paris
A group of Freemasons planting their banners in front of the Porte Maillot, during the Paris Commune, April 1871. The Freemasons were one of many groups who tried to encourage Thiers

Japanese tea cultivation 1874
Series of tea cultivation in Japan. Date: 1874

COURT OF FRANCOIS I
FRANCOIS I OF FRANCE depicted with his court, religious on his right, secular on his left, while the people work on the land farming, planting vines etc Date: 1494 - 1547

15TH CENTURY COUNTRY
Le Travail des Champs - farm workers sowing, plowing, harrowing, reaping, threshing, digging, planting trees &c. Date: late 15th century

Tobacco Plantation
Virginia, USA : clearing ground preparatory to planting tobacco on a plantation Date: 1874

Kashmir - two male rice planters in foothills of Himalayas smile happily as they plant rice shoots Date: 1986

Barefoot boy with mattock, Sierra Leone
A barefoot West African farm boy pauses from working on a smallholding outside Freetown, Sierra Leone. He wears a crucifix on his forehead and carries a heavy digging mattock Date: circa 1982

Woman on allotment - 2
A woman bends over and plants onion sets in the well-prepared soil of her allotment in Northern England. The background shows ramshackle allotments and on the skyline is a church tower

Woman on allotment - 1
A woman bends over and plants onion sets in the well-prepared soil of her allotment in Northern England. The background shows ramshackle allotments and on the skyline is a church tower

Wolverhampton, Staffordshire - Patriotic Flowerbed Planting
WW1 - Wolverhampton, Staffordshire - Patriotic Flowerbed Planting in West Park. Date: 1917

Sierra Leone, West Africa - Villagers preparing arable land for planting, accompanied by the sound of drums. Date: circa 1910s

Grand Floral Piano - Bowling Park, Bradford, Yorkshire Date: 1923

Wet Rainy Rain Raining Rains Utagawa Hiroshige
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Autumnal Borders at Munstead Wood (Grade I listed), the home of influential British horticulturist, garden designer, artist and writer Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932)

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