 | Rural attractions of London: A seventeenth-century garden, which the Marchioness of Salisbury helped to plant in the 1980s, thrives in the churchyard of St Mary-at-Lambeth, and a museum devoted to garden history is being assembled in the church. Many of the flowers, trees and shrubs, such as honeysuckle and a Judas tree, were introduced to England and propagated by the Tradescant family, gardeners to James L, Charles 1 and Robert Cecil, the first Earl of Salisbury. They travelled widely to collect botanical specimens; John, the father, brought fruit trees from Holland and Flanders, gladiolus byzantinus and the African marigold from Spain and North Africa, and angelica and the Siberian larch from Russia. His son, also John, went on three expeditions to North America, returning with columbines, a tulip tree and Virginia creeper. |
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