But gardens are living landscapes - they need to develop, even if they have an important place in garden history.

Read myths and legends and garden history.

Its quarterly magazine, Arnoldia, provides in-depth information on horticulture, botany, and garden history.

One of the commonplaces of garden history is that America lacked any significant interest in gardening during the entire Victorian era.

Other aspects of London's contribution to garden history such as market gardening, botany and plant collecting in the 18th and 19th centuries will be presented.

Then she plunged into a master's degree in garden history.

So it is little wonder that John Watkins describes a visit to the garden as 'a walk through 300 years of garden history'.

He also published more generally on England in the later middle ages, and was a pioneer in the field of garden history.

But she also has a dirt gardener's knowledge of orchids and roses, and she knows her garden history.

She looks at the collection with a view to its bearing on garden history.