It was a pleasure to welcome back Dr David Marsh, garden historian, academic and former trustee of The Gardens Trust. The intriguing title of his talk was ‘The Great Geranium Robbery’, about an Old Bailey trial in 1795 following the theft of numerous expensive plants…
The scene:
Daniel Grimwood’s Nursery (formerly The Kensington Nursery) in West Kensington.
The context:
and ‘Twelve Months of Fruit: June’ (1732)
Charlton and Blackheath Amateur Horticultural Society 
