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Siân Rees

@PlantingDiaries

Gardener, blogger, enthusiast for roses, topiary, heritage plants, photography and digital archives.

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I studied with Keith Arnatt (1930-2008) in the early 1990s. Keith’s interest in photography came through conceptual art, and tutorials were often spent discussing photography’s ability to transform ‘something’...and his obsession with Samuel Palmer @profdanhicks #MuseumsUnlocked

guy_moreton's tweet image. I studied with Keith Arnatt (1930-2008) in the early 1990s. Keith’s interest in photography came through conceptual art, and tutorials were often spent discussing photography’s ability to transform ‘something’...and his obsession with Samuel Palmer @profdanhicks #MuseumsUnlocked
guy_moreton's tweet image. I studied with Keith Arnatt (1930-2008) in the early 1990s. Keith’s interest in photography came through conceptual art, and tutorials were often spent discussing photography’s ability to transform ‘something’...and his obsession with Samuel Palmer @profdanhicks #MuseumsUnlocked
guy_moreton's tweet image. I studied with Keith Arnatt (1930-2008) in the early 1990s. Keith’s interest in photography came through conceptual art, and tutorials were often spent discussing photography’s ability to transform ‘something’...and his obsession with Samuel Palmer @profdanhicks #MuseumsUnlocked
guy_moreton's tweet image. I studied with Keith Arnatt (1930-2008) in the early 1990s. Keith’s interest in photography came through conceptual art, and tutorials were often spent discussing photography’s ability to transform ‘something’...and his obsession with Samuel Palmer @profdanhicks #MuseumsUnlocked

This extraordinary collection of hand coloured glass lantern slides has recently been added to the RHS digital platform. Commissioned by Edith Carroll Perkins and taken by Eleanor Malby in the 1920s. 292 images of English gardens, some now lost @Missvolare

PlantingDiaries's tweet image. This extraordinary collection of hand coloured glass lantern slides has recently been added to the RHS digital platform. Commissioned by Edith Carroll Perkins and taken by Eleanor Malby in the 1920s.  292 images of English gardens, some now lost @Missvolare
PlantingDiaries's tweet image. This extraordinary collection of hand coloured glass lantern slides has recently been added to the RHS digital platform. Commissioned by Edith Carroll Perkins and taken by Eleanor Malby in the 1920s.  292 images of English gardens, some now lost @Missvolare

The late summer planting at Lytes Cary Manor in Somerset is looking great just now. Here's a link to my account of my visit last week: plantingdiaries.com/2023/09/07/las…

PlantingDiaries's tweet image. The late summer planting at Lytes Cary Manor in Somerset is looking great just now.  Here's a link to my account of my visit last week:
plantingdiaries.com/2023/09/07/las…
PlantingDiaries's tweet image. The late summer planting at Lytes Cary Manor in Somerset is looking great just now.  Here's a link to my account of my visit last week:
plantingdiaries.com/2023/09/07/las…
PlantingDiaries's tweet image. The late summer planting at Lytes Cary Manor in Somerset is looking great just now.  Here's a link to my account of my visit last week:
plantingdiaries.com/2023/09/07/las…

Read about dahlia shows in the 1830s, as recounted by Joseph Harrison in The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine. From small scale events in pubs to exhibitions at Vauxhall Gardens. plantingdiaries.com/2023/07/26/dah…

PlantingDiaries's tweet image. Read about dahlia shows in the 1830s, as recounted by Joseph Harrison in The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine.  From small scale events in pubs to exhibitions at Vauxhall Gardens.
plantingdiaries.com/2023/07/26/dah…
PlantingDiaries's tweet image. Read about dahlia shows in the 1830s, as recounted by Joseph Harrison in The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine.  From small scale events in pubs to exhibitions at Vauxhall Gardens.
plantingdiaries.com/2023/07/26/dah…
PlantingDiaries's tweet image. Read about dahlia shows in the 1830s, as recounted by Joseph Harrison in The Floricultural Cabinet and Florist's Magazine.  From small scale events in pubs to exhibitions at Vauxhall Gardens.
plantingdiaries.com/2023/07/26/dah…

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Eric Ravilious was born on this day in 1903. I'm delighted to receive an advance copy of my new book on his work, which is due out on the 28th Sept thanks to @thamesandhudson and @V_and_A...

Ravilious2's tweet image. Eric Ravilious was born on this day in 1903. I'm delighted to receive an advance copy of my new book on his work, which is due out on the 28th Sept thanks to @thamesandhudson and @V_and_A...
Ravilious2's tweet image. Eric Ravilious was born on this day in 1903. I'm delighted to receive an advance copy of my new book on his work, which is due out on the 28th Sept thanks to @thamesandhudson and @V_and_A...
Ravilious2's tweet image. Eric Ravilious was born on this day in 1903. I'm delighted to receive an advance copy of my new book on his work, which is due out on the 28th Sept thanks to @thamesandhudson and @V_and_A...

Street decorations in Cardiff Road, Aberaman by Geoff Charles (People's Collection Wales) @HouseHistorian1 I wonder if you know anything about the tradition of gathering greenery to decorate houses for the miners' fortnight holiday in South Wales?

PlantingDiaries's tweet image. Street decorations in Cardiff Road, Aberaman by Geoff Charles (People's Collection Wales)
@HouseHistorian1 I wonder if you know anything about the tradition of gathering greenery to decorate houses for the miners' fortnight holiday in South Wales?

New blog exploring the new RHS Digital Collections, launched last month. plantingdiaries.com/2023/05/17/exp…

PlantingDiaries's tweet image. New blog exploring the new RHS Digital Collections, launched last month.  
plantingdiaries.com/2023/05/17/exp…
PlantingDiaries's tweet image. New blog exploring the new RHS Digital Collections, launched last month.  
plantingdiaries.com/2023/05/17/exp…
PlantingDiaries's tweet image. New blog exploring the new RHS Digital Collections, launched last month.  
plantingdiaries.com/2023/05/17/exp…

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Nelly Roberts, orchid artist died #OTD 1959. Lived all her life and painted 1000s orchids on Loughborough Road. We placed a plaque on her unmarked grave and her house last year. Guided walks to visit both and hear about other amazing people who made south London home. Thread 👇

RoadSw9's tweet image. Nelly Roberts, orchid artist died #OTD 1959. Lived all her life and painted 1000s orchids on Loughborough Road. We placed a plaque on her unmarked grave and her house last year. 

Guided walks to visit both and hear about other amazing people who made south London home. Thread 👇
RoadSw9's tweet image. Nelly Roberts, orchid artist died #OTD 1959. Lived all her life and painted 1000s orchids on Loughborough Road. We placed a plaque on her unmarked grave and her house last year. 

Guided walks to visit both and hear about other amazing people who made south London home. Thread 👇
RoadSw9's tweet image. Nelly Roberts, orchid artist died #OTD 1959. Lived all her life and painted 1000s orchids on Loughborough Road. We placed a plaque on her unmarked grave and her house last year. 

Guided walks to visit both and hear about other amazing people who made south London home. Thread 👇
RoadSw9's tweet image. Nelly Roberts, orchid artist died #OTD 1959. Lived all her life and painted 1000s orchids on Loughborough Road. We placed a plaque on her unmarked grave and her house last year. 

Guided walks to visit both and hear about other amazing people who made south London home. Thread 👇

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🌱Where to start with #gardenhistory? Here's our top 5 blogs and podcasts for those that have just discovered garden history - do you have a favourite that we haven’t mentioned? Let everyone know in the comments 👇 And don't forget to like, share and save! 🌿

thegardenstrust's tweet image. 🌱Where to start with #gardenhistory?

Here's our top 5 blogs and podcasts for those that have just discovered garden history - do you have a favourite that we haven’t mentioned? Let everyone know in the comments 👇

And don't forget to like, share and save! 🌿

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Mary Ann Everard worked her beautiful sampler at Stickney School in Lincolnshire, one of several extant samplers from the school. She depicted the lodges of Burghley House. Mary Ann Everard may have married Thomas Taylor in Stickney on 6 November 1828

Witney_Antiques's tweet image. Mary Ann Everard worked her beautiful sampler at Stickney School in Lincolnshire, one of several extant samplers from the school. She depicted the lodges of Burghley House. Mary Ann Everard may have married Thomas Taylor in Stickney on 6 November 1828

Described by rose experts Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix as ‘some of the very best of all garden roses’, this is the story of Rev J H Pemberton's hybrid musk roses. Still available and worth growing today. Link: bit.ly/3JdRmuM #RoseWednesday

PlantingDiaries's tweet image. Described by rose experts Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix as ‘some of the very best of all garden roses’, this is the story of Rev J H Pemberton's hybrid musk roses.  Still available and worth growing today.
Link: bit.ly/3JdRmuM
#RoseWednesday
PlantingDiaries's tweet image. Described by rose experts Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix as ‘some of the very best of all garden roses’, this is the story of Rev J H Pemberton's hybrid musk roses.  Still available and worth growing today.
Link: bit.ly/3JdRmuM
#RoseWednesday
PlantingDiaries's tweet image. Described by rose experts Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix as ‘some of the very best of all garden roses’, this is the story of Rev J H Pemberton's hybrid musk roses.  Still available and worth growing today.
Link: bit.ly/3JdRmuM
#RoseWednesday

The Butterfly-Haunted Italian Garden, Glamis Fay Godwin 1931 - 2005 National Galleries Scotland Love the interplay between the textures of the tightly clipped topiary, the avenue of pleached trees, the hedges, grass and the shadows. #InternationalWomansDay

PlantingDiaries's tweet image. The Butterfly-Haunted Italian Garden, Glamis
Fay Godwin 1931 - 2005
National Galleries Scotland
Love the interplay between the textures of the tightly clipped topiary, the avenue of pleached trees, the hedges, grass and the shadows.
#InternationalWomansDay
PlantingDiaries's tweet image. The Butterfly-Haunted Italian Garden, Glamis
Fay Godwin 1931 - 2005
National Galleries Scotland
Love the interplay between the textures of the tightly clipped topiary, the avenue of pleached trees, the hedges, grass and the shadows.
#InternationalWomansDay

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Remembering some of my horticultural heroes @waterperry on International Women’s Day. Beatrix Havergal, Joan Stokes and Mary Spiller @thegardenstrust @waterperrysimon #InternationalWomensDay #horticulturalheroes #waterperrygardens #gardeningtwitter

pathavers's tweet image. Remembering some of my horticultural heroes @waterperry on International Women’s Day. Beatrix Havergal, Joan Stokes and Mary Spiller @thegardenstrust @waterperrysimon #InternationalWomensDay #horticulturalheroes #waterperrygardens #gardeningtwitter
pathavers's tweet image. Remembering some of my horticultural heroes @waterperry on International Women’s Day. Beatrix Havergal, Joan Stokes and Mary Spiller @thegardenstrust @waterperrysimon #InternationalWomensDay #horticulturalheroes #waterperrygardens #gardeningtwitter
pathavers's tweet image. Remembering some of my horticultural heroes @waterperry on International Women’s Day. Beatrix Havergal, Joan Stokes and Mary Spiller @thegardenstrust @waterperrysimon #InternationalWomensDay #horticulturalheroes #waterperrygardens #gardeningtwitter
pathavers's tweet image. Remembering some of my horticultural heroes @waterperry on International Women’s Day. Beatrix Havergal, Joan Stokes and Mary Spiller @thegardenstrust @waterperrysimon #InternationalWomensDay #horticulturalheroes #waterperrygardens #gardeningtwitter

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This beautiful #seedpacket from our #HSL archives comes from Cuthbert's Seeds - set up in the 18th century, when, it's said, James Cuthbert travelled to London to seek his fortune. The company's colourful #seed packets were sold for decades in Woolworths. Do you remember them?

HeritageSeedsUK's tweet image. This beautiful #seedpacket from our #HSL archives comes from Cuthbert's Seeds - set up in the 18th century, when, it's said, James Cuthbert travelled to London to seek his fortune. The company's colourful #seed packets were sold for decades in Woolworths. Do you remember them?

Children wearing their St David's Day leeks (1st March, 1957) Photograph by Geoff Charles National Library of Wales Happy #stdavidsday

PlantingDiaries's tweet image. Children wearing their St David's Day leeks (1st March, 1957)
Photograph by Geoff Charles
National Library of Wales
Happy #stdavidsday

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Shepherd’s Cottage, Eric Ravilious, 1934. It depicts a cottage near Furlongs at Firle, East #Sussex. The original artwork, once thought lost, now appears to be in a private collection but is on display at @TownerGallery.

Ravilious1942's tweet image. Shepherd’s Cottage, Eric Ravilious, 1934. It depicts a cottage near Furlongs at Firle, East #Sussex. The original artwork, once thought lost, now appears to be in a private collection but is on display at @TownerGallery.

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