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Will Alfred Theodore Ingwersen (7 May 1905 – 14 June 1990), was a British nurseryman and alpine specialist. [1] [2] He was an authority on alpine plants, and an expert on rock gardens. [3] Ingwersen was awarded numerous gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show and was the author or co-author of several books.
Hillier Nurseries is a horticultural business which was founded by Edwin Hillier in 1864 as a florist and plant nursery. It expanded as a family business, especially when managed by grandson Harold Hillier , and is now the largest nursery of shrubs and trees in the UK.
In 1836, aged 21 years, he became a partner and the 'House of Sutton' became Sutton & Son. By mid-1838 they began selling greenhouse plants, many of the bulbs coming from local nurseries, but some from the Netherlands. Suttons established their own laboratory to test seeds for germination and purity in 1840.
Unwins Seeds is a British seed company based in Alconbury Weston, Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. The Times described Unwins as "a firm that has grown ... to become one of the most familiar features of Britain’s horticultural landscape", [ 1 ] and the BBC called the company "world-famous".
Ravensworth Nurseries Ltd, (historically trading as Bradbrook & Hannah) was an English horticultural business and garden centre located in Ravensworth, North Yorkshire. It supplied garden centres and retailers across the United Kingdom as well as its own on-site sales.
An Alpine is a plant that occurs in the region above the tree line and below permanent snow in mountainous regions. Within temperate and boreal regions, the alpine zone can be subdivided into three zones, each with characteristic vegetation types: Lower alpine, with bush and tall herb communities; Middle alpine, in which sedges, grasses and heath species dominate; and, Upper alpine, with dwarf ...