Amateur botanist John Bradby Blake and his collaborators never completed their illustrated record of Chinese flora, but they still stoked Britain’s passion for the Asian country’s plants

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Unlike some of the gardeners and scientists of his time, George Maw isn’t a household name today. A passionate botanist, geologist, ceramicist and artist, Maw corresponded with the likes of Charles Da

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"Dad used to call me a feckless environmentalist,” Hugh Crossley says warmly of his father, the 3rd Baron Somerleyton. “But he was a conservationist in his own way – he’s the reason we have good hedge