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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.
Thompson & Morgan (T&M) had its origins in a small garden behind a baker's shop in Ipswich, where a young William Thompson's passion for botany grew. His speciality was growing rare and unusual plants whose seeds were sent from countries all over the world.
A garden centre (Commonwealth English spelling; U.S. nursery or garden center) is a retail operation that sells plants and related products for the domestic garden as its primary business. It is a development from the concept of the retail plant nursery but with a wider range of outdoor products and on-site facilities.
The largest collection of nursery and seed trade catalogs in the U.S. is held at the National Agricultural Library where the earliest catalogs date from the late 18th century, with most published from the 1890s to the present. [1] Seed companies produce a huge range of seeds from highly developed F1 hybrids to open pollinated wild species. They ...
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.
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.