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57; admirers 111, 162, 168, 181, 254, 255; alternative therapies 159, 168; anxiety 70, 82, 84, 95, 103, 146, 149; article writing 71, 79, 115, 118, 124, 148, 178, 215; birth 15, 16; birthdays 75, 78, 152, 194, 262; book signing 122; book writing 120, 148, 164, 178, 179, 209, 221, 241, 242; change of name 49; childbirth 37, 42; childhood 15, 18, 19, 21; cleaning 38, 210; cooking 39, 79, 150, 196, 198, 237; cosmetic surgery 176; death 267, 274; depression 174, 181, 213; driving 47, 88, 102; early gardening; 17, 20, 64; education 20, 22, 25, 26, 29; financial concerns 37, 68, 71, 75, 78, 79, 81, 84, 98, 120, 174, 263; flower arranging 39, 44, 44, 68, 85, 150, 269; flower arranging demonstrations 47, 48, 75, 79, 84, 115; funeral 267; garden at Elmstead Market 65, 76, 82, 114, 149, 153, 158, 167, 171, 179, 213, 218, 219, 243, 264; Golden Wedding 214; grandmother 6, 116, 229, 230, 253; holidays 50, 53, 54, 62, 69, 74, 79, 95, 98, 118, 118, 152, 157, 178, 183, 186–93; honours 177, 181, 195, 249, 257, 258, 274; letter-writing 115, 120, 243, 263; lectures 130, 146, 148, 159; marriage 13, 33, 40, 41, 72, 153, 214, 274; medical problems 84, 112, 123, 120, 139, 158, 180, 203, 261; memorial 268; music 194, 227; nervous breakdown 82, 203; personality 31, 64, 68, 75, 93, 103, 152, 214, 215, 248, 254; obituaries 268; planting plans 90, 94, 120, 156, 217; planting principles 44, 54, 88, 269; portraits 1, 2, 8, 32, 32, 35, 169, 176, 259; radio 182, 25, 262; reaction to father’s death 127; reading 28, 111, 116, 120, 135, 148, 158; relationship with ‘Hans’ Pluygers 74, 78, 79, 82, 95, 98, 118, 127, 147, 152, 157, 181, 215, 229, 230, 231, 266; religion 18, 19, 23, 253; RHS dealings 99, 103, 170, 173; school gardening 22, 26, 35; shows 47, 87, 97, 99, 100, 149, 153, 157, 165; use of tranquillisers 69, 82; snooker 100; staff 127, 129, 146, 155, 165, 174, 181, 194, 204, 221, 233, 234, 235, 247, 257, 259, 263; students 245, 246, 247, 248, 250; teaching career 34, 36, 129; television appearances 43, 100, 198, 259, 267; trips abroad 144, 151, 161, 251; vegetable gardening 41, 163, 204, 205, 233, 238, 245; vegetarianism 39, 150, 158, 237; visits to Great Dixter, 125, 198, 206, 207, 236, 239, 240, 260; wedding 13, 31, 32; winter depression 204 Chatto, Beth (author) Beth Chatto’s Garden

Notebook 11, 116, 151, 164, 180, 209, 211, 219, 272, 274; Beth Chatto’s Gravel Garden 217, 242, 274; Beth Chatto’s Shade Garden 274; Beth Chatto’s Woodland Garden 211, 274; The Damp Garden 40, 63, 116, 123, 125, 126, 132, 151, 272; The Damp Garden, new edition 274; Dear Friend and Gardener (with Christopher Lloyd) 114, 179, 237-241, 274; The Dry Garden 95, 103, 116, 120, 120, 123, 125, 131, 272, 274; ‘Gardening in Shade’ for Horticulture journal 179; The Green Tapestry 173, 179, 209, 274; Places for Plants 148, 178; Plant Portraits 148, 274; Chatto, Diana SEE Shaw, Diana Chatto, Elisabeth (née Boote) (1878-1944) 24,

38, 39, 50, 53; death 34 Chatto, Mary SEE Marshall, Mary Chatto & Windus 24, 173 Chelsea Flower Show (Royal Horticultural

Society) 7, 40, 48, 79, 84, 89, 90-103, 105, 91, 96, 97, 99, 112, 120, 123, 128, 145, 146, 147, 149, 149, 150, 154, 164, 165, 166, 167, 172, 178, 194, 211, 215, 219, 232, 237, 242, 248, 250, 252, 259, 267, 269, 277, 279; Flower Arrangement Show 48; Gold Medal 7, 89, 90, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 101, 127, 128, 145, 146, 155, 164, 166, 211; Great Marquee 90, 95, 165, 166, 269; rock garden 97, 98, 146; sales list 92; Silver-Gilt Medal 89, 93; weather 166 Chicago, IL 159, 162

Childs, Edward ‘Ted’ (1905–1996) 137, 276 Chionodoxa 124 Christmas rose 86 Cistus 62, 219 Clarence House, London 233, 264 Classic FM radio 245 Clematis 170 Clements, Julia (1906–2010) 46 clothes 21, 31, 36, 50, 133, 135, 146, 166, 175, 176,

190, 196, 226 Cluniemore, Pitlochry, Perth & Kinross 190 Codrington, Lt-Col John (1898–1991) 131, 193,

208, 276, 279 Codrington, Primrose SEE Roper, Primrose Col de Sevi, Corsica 50 Colborn, Nigel 164 Colchester, Elizabeth 47, 48 Colchester, Essex 13, 22, 23, 25, 44, 48, 69, 74,

78, 175, 261, 266; Bakers Lane 41 Colchester County High School for Girls 22, 23;

Grey Friars 22 Colchester Flower Club 44, 46, 48, 98 Colchester Gazette 44 Colchester Officers’ Club 195 Colchicum 81, 89, 110, 114 cold frames 75, 130 Collier, Gordon 222, 276 Collins, William & Sons 173, 209 Colman’s of Norwich 259 Colne, River, estuary, Essex 28, 30 Complete Book of Flower Arrangement, The

(1947), by Frederick Frye Rockwell 44 compost 184, 247 computer, Apple Mackintosh 162 Concorde 163 conifers 137, 192, 275 Convallaria majalis 165 Cornus canadensis 138 Corsica 53, 69 Cosmos 132 Côte d’Azur, France 56 Country Life 98, 125 County Clare, Ireland 217 Cowell, John 98, 102, 172, 173 Crambe cordifolia 102 Cranks vegetarian restaurant 39 Crathes Castle, Aberdeenshire 186 Crawford, Robert ‘Robin’ Lindsay, Earl of

Crawford and Balcarres 189, 258 Crawford, Ruth Lindsay, Countess of Crawford and Balcarres 189, 202, 203, 258, 276 cremation 253 Crepis incana 98 Crocus 62 Crocus (dachshund) 124, 207 Crosby, Janet 165 cultivars 93 Curtis, William: Flora Londinensis (c.1777) 190 Cyclamen 109, 114, 132; C. rohlfsianum 132 cypress 108; swamp c. 144, 145 Cypripedium 136

dachshund 124, 163, 205, 207, 260 Dahlia 132 Dahlia (dachshund) 260 Daily Telegraph, The 268 daisy 192; ox-eye d. 193; yellow d. 223 Dale, Michael 250 Dalswinton, Dumfries & Galloway 191, 278;

laburnum arch 191; tennis court 191 Daphne odora 98 David, Elizabeth (1913–1992) 56, 57, 150 Davidson, Dennis 192 Davies, Margaret 121, 121, 123 Davis, Steve 100 Day, Sir Robin (1923–2000) 195 decimalisation 81 Delphinium 42, 53, 93 Denmans, Fontwell, W. Sussex 207, 275 Dent, J.M. & Sons 116, 120, 173 Dianthus 46, 54, 66 Dillon, Helen 97, 259, 288

Diocesan Institute for the Training of

Schoolmistresses, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts. 26 Diplarrena moraea 98 Dieren, Netherlands 183 Dolomites 53, 69 Don, Monty 272 drought 41, 64, 95, 192, 217, 233 Dryas octopetala 138 Dryden, Kathleen ‘Kath’ (1925–2009) 175 Dryopteris pseudomas 192 Dublin, Ireland 217 Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC 163 Dungeness, Kent (Prospect Cottage) 216, 217 Dupré, Desmond (1916–1974) 43 Duval, Kulgin (1929–2017) 189, 190, 203, 277

Earle, Mrs (1836–1925) 116, 135, 152, 158; Pot-

pourri from a Surrey Garden 116, 135 Echinacea 123 Echium 223 ecology 7, 28, 153, 172, 213, 238, 266, 272 Edinburgh 69, 200; Royal Botanic Garden,

E. 201; fern house 202; cactus house 202; lecture theatre 201 Eileen (Dearsley) 78, 79 Elliott, Joe 166 Elmstead Market, Essex 9, 22, 23, 28, 63, 69, 86,

89, 134, 158, 167, 172, 194, 198, 235, 236, 259, 264, 272; St Anne & St Laurence Church 13, 32, 98, 253, 267; E.M. Women’s Institute 78 Emma (cat) 158 Enever, Jo 171 English Heritage 192, 256 Enteromorpha (sea lettuce, now Ulva lactuca)

30 Epimedium 160 Ercol table and chairs 68 Eryngium 47; E. agavifolium 89; E. giganteum

102 Essex County Council 216 Essex County Standard 79, 118 Euonymus alatus 137 Eupatorium 143 Euphorbia 48, 70; E. griffithii ‘Dixter’ 183;

E. robbiae (E. amygdaloides var. r.) 183; E. wulfenii (E. characias subsp. w.) 164, 183; E. myrsinites 157; E. palustris 157 Everett, Thomas ‘Tom’ (1903–1986) 132, 277

Ferguson, Sarah (later Sarah, Duchess of

York) 156 ferns 20, 94, 109, 118, 187, 192, 196, 201, 203;

broad buckler f. 192; Christmas fern 136; green and white f. 160; hard f. 190; Japanese painted f. 160 Filipendula 157 Finlay, Major William Knox (1895–1970) &

Mary (1897–1987) 191, 278 Finnis, Valerie (1924–2006) 86, 88, 164, 166, 175 Fish, Margery (1892–1969) 120 Flora of Essex 276 flower arranging 39, 42, 43, 47, 48, 68, 75, 79, 84,

85, 115, 150, 269; f.a. clubs 84; Japanese f.a. 44; f. arrangement by Beth Chatto 44 Flowerdew, Bob 245 Foerster, Karl (1874–1970) 174, 264 Foggy Bottom, Bressingham, Norfolk 275 Foss, Pitlochry, Perth & Kinross 190 Foster, Harry Lincoln (1906–1989) 130, 277 foxglove 118, 166 Framlingham Church, Suffolk 232 France 79, 118, 224 Frances Lincoln (publishers) 221; SEE ALSO

Lincoln, Frances Frenich, Pitlochry, Perth & Kinross 277 Freud, Lucian (1922–2011) 56 Friar Park, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon. 102 Fritillaria (fritillary) 59, 62; F. acmopetala 183;

F. pontica 183; F. pyrenaica 54, 183; F. verticillata 183 Fukumoto, Hiroshi 264