Planting Collection (page 3)

Munstead Wood and Gardens - home of Gertrude Jekyll
The Main Border (July, 2017) at Munstead Wood (Grade I listed), the home of influential British horticulturist, garden designer, artist and writer Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932)

Man in knitted waistcoat by Stitchcraft knitting patterns. 1960s

Man and boy, seed drill, field near Plymouth, Devon
Man and boy with horse and seed drill in a field near Plymouth, Devon. circa 1960s

Christening 1918 Tree Planting Proxy Godfathers group
Christopher Powell-Cotton (1918-2006) was christenend at All Saints Church, Birchington on 20 April 1918. Afterwards a tree was planted in the grounds of Quex Park

Edwardian Gardeners, England. Showing the Planting of Seedlings Date: 1900s

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

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

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

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

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

Reconstruction by William Heath Robinson, WW1 cartoon
Afforestation - a good beginning in the provinces. A town rather over-compensates for all the felling of trees that took place during the First World War by placing planted flower pots in every

Growing food in Chancery Lane, WW1
Mr Hubert Hall, resident officer of the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane, pictured hard at work in the gardens of the old Rolls House, where

Skye crofters planting potatoes, Scotland. Date: late 19th century

Home Gardening magazine, November 1932
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring an illustration demonstrating a magnificent display of roses trained across trellises, pergolas, arches and in beds. Date: 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

Home Gardening magazine, September 1932
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine advising readers to start planting their bulb bowls now in order to ensure a vibrant display of hyacinths indoors over winter. Date: 1932

Little child with bulbs by Muriel Dawson
A little child planning to plant some bulbs, by Muriel Dawson. Date: circa 1920s

Queen Victoria planting a tree at Waddesdon Manor, 1890
Queen Victoria at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire: planting a tree in memory of her visit on 14th May 1890. Date: 14th May 1890

Home Gardening magazine, January 1932
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring pictorial instructions for taking chrysanthemum cuttings. Date: 1932

Home Gardening magazine, October 1928
Front cover of Home Gardening magazine featuring a lady on plant up of bowl with bulbs. Advice on how to achieve good blooms and strong foliage is contained inside. Date: 1928

Russian Farmer Tending to his Land
A bearded and elderly Russian Farmer delicately sowing seeds by hand. Date: 1924

Hand-Planting Potatoes
Young and old planting potatoes by hand on a farm in Suffolk, England. Date: 1950s

Watercress Cultivation
Watercress cultivation : planting the cress. Date: 1950s

Spring, 18th century French School (possibly by Francois Octavien, 1695-1736). Showing people planting in a garden, tilling the soil, minding the lambs and gathering spring flowers

Green-house. Copper-plate illustration from Richard Bradley, New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical. Plate III. Date: 1739

Rice planting in rain. Print shows several people working in rice paddies during a rain storm. Date between 1900 and 1940, from an earlier print

Floral Staircase at The Parade, Bridlington, Yorkshire
Floral Staircase at The Parade, Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire Date: circa 1920

Farming 1925
Thinning sugar beets, Isle of Ven, Sweden 1925 Date: 1925

Chalk Soil Ploughing
A fine example of deep ploughing on chalk soil, for the planting of conifers, near Bryants Puddle, Dorset, England. Date: 1950s

Harrowing 1925
Harrowing, The isle of Ven, Landskrona, 1925. The half-timbered house was typical for in the country of Scania. Date: 1925

Tomato Hothouse
Tomatoes growing in a greenhouse, four weeks after planting. Date: 1950s

Nic. Thomas Bremontier
NICOLAS-THOMAS BREMONTIER French engineer who preserved the Atlantic coast of France by planting trees to stabilise the sand-dunes. Date: 1738 - 1809

Landscape Gardening in a German trench
Clear evidence of the superiority of German trench-building, an intricate structure of rustic woodwork makes life in this particular trench that little bit more bearable

Little Gardener by Muriel Dawson
A little blonde girl in a red dress waters her seedlings with a small watering can

England - Sowing
Illustration, possibly for a poster, of typically English countryside in spring, with a lone farmer or farm worker sowing seeds in a ploughed field

Edward VII at a tree planting ceremony
King Edward VII at a tree planting ceremony. Well dressed spectators watch from a distance, some of them looking over a wall

Prince of Wales (George V) at Shepton Mallet
The Prince of Wales (soon to be George V), with his wife Mary behind him, plants an oak tree sapling as a memento of their visit to the market town of Shepton Mallet in Somerset. Date: 1909

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

Planting a poppy at the garden of remembrance
The tenth anniversary of the Armistice at Westminster Abbey. An ex-serviceman from the British Legion placing a poppy on the Garden of Remembrance

Planting Rice China
Chinese farmers planting rice

The Old Man & 3 Youths
THE OLD MAN & THREE YOUTHS Three young men question why an old man is planting saplings whose fruit he won t live to enjoy; life is uncertain, he may outlive them

PLANTING IRISH TATIES
A little girl helps a couple, perhaps her grandfather and mother, to plant taties (potatoes) on a four acre farm in Eire (Ireland)

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

Planting rice in paddy fields

Social / Sweden / Country
A Swedish family enjoy their Sommarhus (summer house) a second home in the country, where the kids can play and Dad can do his back in planting veggies

Ross / Magnetic Pole
John Rosss arctic expedition: Ross planting the British Standard on the true position of the Magnetic Pole

Gardening 1827
A gardener digging over his garden in preparation for planting new plants

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping