Saturday, 25 January 2014

Gardening, a social context


A garden end, Suffolk by Peter Henry Emmerson 1888
These are some postcards I picked up at the Garden museum.
Here we can see that men and women worked to bring food to the
table coming up with innovative ways to help produce veg
working with British soil and weather.

Skelton Tested Tools, Sheffield 1950


Gardening for all cover, 1930
This 1930's image shows gardening bringing
together practicality and leisure, bridging an
age gap as it's an activity people of all ages can enjoy
and benefit from.


Hortico gardening catalogue,  1967
Tulip picking

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