Hawksmoor, Nicholas (?1661-1736) 228 hawthorn 120 Hayward, Gilly 78 hazel 49, 120 Heathrow Airport, Hillingdon, London 181 heliotrope ‘Chatsworth’ 87 Hellbrunn Palace, Salzburg, Austria 212 hellebore 42, 53, 55, 72, 73 hemelsleutel SEE Sedum henges, Neolithic 18 Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594-1612) 209 herbaceous planting 99 herbs 119 Herron, Ronald James ‘Ron’ (1930-94) 31, 32, 40 Hesperis matronalis 185, 195 Heston, Charlton (1923-2008) 240 Hibberd, James Shirley (1825-90): Rustic

Adornments for Homes of Taste 78 Hibberd, Robert 55, 195, 209 Hibberd, Roger 195 Hicks, David Nightingale (1929-98) 97, 115;

Garden Design 97 Hidcote Manor Garden, Glos. 195 Hill, Oliver Falvey (1887-1968) 21 High Force, Forest-in-Teesdale, Co. Durham

13, 172 Highgrove, Tetbury, Glos. 71-80; arbours

78; archway 80; As You Like It inscription 71; ‘Capital Seats and Concrete Assets’ limestone fragments 71; ‘Columnbird’ drawing 77; gilded nest 77; gunnera fountain 77, 79; Horace quotation 77; Italianate benches 80; oak bench 77; pyramid 80; Stumpery 55, 77, 79, 80; ‘Tempiettos’ 72, 73; Temple 71; Temple Grove 23, 29, 72, 73, 203; ‘Temple of Worthies’ exedra 78; tree house 73; wood yard 80; woodland garden 71 history 23 Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679) 209 Hobhouse, Penelope 45 Hockney, David 17 Hofland, Barbara (1770-1844) & Thomas

Christopher Hofland (1777-1843): A descriptive account of the mansion and gardens of White-Knights 45 hoggin 195 holly 172, 184 hollyhock 280 Hone, Peter 227 honesty 120, 195; purple h. 140 honeysuckle 40; climbing h. 136 Hong Kong, China 97 Hooke, Robert (1635-1703) 209 hornbeam 87; h. allées 195, 195; h. hedges 178;

h. hedges on stilts 178; h. pergola 206, 212; pleached h. 97, 100 horse chestnut 64 horticulture 157 Horton Hall, Northants. 28; Menagerie 28 Hosta, National Collection 79 Houghton Hall, Norfolk 83-94, 184, 189;

Antler Temple 83, 84, 87; aster borders 87; ‘boscos’ 83; carrstone stable 83; cutting beds 87; fruit cage 93; giant borders 83, 83, 84; ‘Golden Wedding’ border 83; ha-ha 83; Janus head 95; Lady Sibyl Cholmondeley box garden 83, 90; lime tree avenue 83; meteorite fountain 83, 87; oak arbour 93; obelisk 87; orchid house 83; park 83; peony border 87, 90; pergola 87, 90, 94; pleached lime garden 87, 90; Prunus ‘Tai-haku’ walk 90; rose arches 93; rose garden 87, 93; rose tower 84; stables 84; sweet chestnut avenues 83; swimming pool garden 83; Vicenza stone statue 93; walled garden 83, 84; yew hedges 93, 95 Howard, Alathea SEE Arundel, Alathea

Howard, Countess of Howard, Thomas SEE Arundel, Thomas

Howard, 14th Earl of Howard Nurseries, Diss, Norfolk 87 Hughes, Edward James ‘Ted’ Hughes (1930-

98) 78, 80 Humphries, (John) Barry 73 Hurle Crescent, Clifton, Bristol 15

Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’ 276; blue h.

272; H. paniculata ‘Limelight’ 196, 275, 280 Icknield Way, Herts. 14 ilex SEE oak, holm Imagination Ltd 31 Iris 84, 87, 99, 148, 195, 196, 246; blue i. 249; I.

‘Braithwaite’ 196, 279; I. ‘Jane Phillips’ 279; I. ‘Mahogany’ 249; I. pallida subsp. pallida 87, 246, 254, 278, 284; I. ‘Sable’ 279 Isatis tinctoria 129 Ismay, Anne 13 Istanbul 135 Italy 209 ivy 49, 53, 184, 230; clipped i. 32, 37, 42, 107 Ivy, The, Chippenham, Wilts 19, 20, 21, 25,

71, 97, 235 jackdaws 269 Jackson-Stops, Gervase Frank Ashworth

(1947-95) 28 James I & VI (1566-1625) 209 James II & VII (1633-1701) 55 James, Edward William Frank (1907-84) 240 James, Steve 157 James, Susie 157 Jebb, Magdalen Marianne Francesca 230 Jebb, Philip Vincent Belloc ‘Pip’ (1927-95) 40,

172, 174, 179, 230 Jerusalem sage 115 Jigsaw, Bristol 135, 139, 157, 181 John, Augustus Edwin (1878-1961) 16 Johnston, Nicholas John 45 Jones, Barbara Mildred (1912-78) 9; design for a lino floor, H.M. Customs & Excise, Southend-on-Sea, Essex 20; Follies and

Grottoes cover 20 Jones, Chester 45 Jones, Inigo (1573-1652) 9, 203, 209, 212, 217;

drawing of ‘sea monkeys’ 221; ‘Gateway at Newhill, Essex’ 212; stage set of Oberon, the Fairy Prince 209 Jones, Jackie 181 Jonson, Ben (1572-1637) 209; Oberon, the

Fairy Prince 209 Kagan, Joseph, Baron Kagan (1915-95) 135 Kansas City Art Institute 18 Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) 28 Kantor, Tadeusz (1915-90) 17 Keeling, Jim: pots 32, 98, 99 Keen, Lady (Priscilla) Mary Rose 23, 31, 42,

280, 287 Kelsey, Gerry 214 Kent, William (c1685-1748) 6, 28, 29, 51, 77,

83, 84 Kerria 15 Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens, Surrey 31 Key, Ursula & family 73 Keynsham, Bristol 61; K. sewer 265 keystones 51 Kiley, Daniel Urban ‘Dan’ (1912-2004) 18,

19, 25 Kime, Helen Morag (née Nicoll) (1937-2012)

23, 79 Kime, Robert 49, 79, 97 King’s Road, Chelsea, London 157 Kinmonth, Patrick and Tessa Traeger: A

Gardener’s Labyrinth 9 Kip, Johannes ‘Jan’ (c1652-1722) 19 Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard (1865-1936) 10 kite, red 53 Knepp Castle, W. Sussex 209 Kniphofia 84 Knole House, Sevenoaks, Kent 27 Kyoto, Japan 23 Lancaster, Nancy (1897-1994) 98, 99 Lane, Joseph (c1717-84) 12, 49 Lane Fox, Robin James 65 Lane, Josiah (c1753-1833) 12, 49 Langley, Batty (1696-1751) 9 Langton Matravers quarries, Dorset 53 Lante, Villa, Bagnaio, Lazio, Italy 23 Lavandula (lavender) 65; L. ‘Hazel’ 249;

French l. 195; L. stoechas 278 Lee the Tree 25, 78

Leeds Castle, Maidstone, Kent 209; grotto 26,

27, 28, 28, 29, 184 Lees-Milne, (George) James Henry (1908-97) 19 lemon verbena 287 Lent lily 195 Leucanthemum vulgare 129 Lewis, Clive Staples (1898-1963) 10 Leyhill, H.M. Prison, Tortworth, Glos. 65, 65 leylandii (× Cuprocyparis l.) 235 lichen 174, 217, 269 lilac 15, 19, 42, 87, 115, 120, 195, 269, 275;

l. ‘Madame Lemoine’ 259; l. ‘Prince Wolkonsky’ 259 Lilium (lily) 99, 99, 195, 278; L. African Queen

Group 179, 252; L. ‘Anastasia’ 278; L. ‘Easy Salsa’ 275; Madonna l. 65; martagon l. 42, 55, 65, 71, 276; L. ‘Miss Freya’ 278; L. pyrenaicum 15; L. regale 65, 87, 120, 246, 263, 287 lily of the valley 12, 15, 276 lime SEE ALSO Tilia; l. roots 29; pleached l.

87; l. tree 71, 195; l.t. avenue 83 lime, sweet 159, 159 lime render 228 lime wash 78, 228 limestone 49, 51, 53, 55; Ancaster l. 161;

Cotswold l. 97; Italian l. 221, 230; Mexican l. 159, 159; l. troughs 179, 179 Lindisfarne, Northum. 15 Lindsay, Norah (1873-1948) 269, 273 Little Dorrit 227 Little Sparta, Dunsyre, Midlothian 78 living root house sketch 29 Llanthony Priory, Hay-on-Wye, Mon. 27,

173, 174 Long, Richard 83 Longleat, Wilts. 212 ‘Loons’ 135 love-in-a-mist 119 Lulworth, Dorset 14 Lunaria annua 184 Lupinus (lupin) 65, 84, 195, 196, 249, 279; L.

arboreus 275; L. ‘Masterpiece’ 129, 279; L. ‘My Castle’ 246; L. ‘Noble Maiden’ 196; L. ‘Rote Flamme’ 280; West Country l. 83, 248, 249 Lycett Green, Candida (1942-2014) 10, 19,

25, 61, 71 Lycett Green, Endellion: ‘Hemelsleutel, Sedum

‘Matrona’ and Echinops’ 15; ‘Eryngiums, ferns and perovskia’ 15 Lycett Green, Rupert 25 Lychnis 65, 195; L. coronaria 129 Lynher, River, Cornwall 269, 281 Lysichiton 167 Macaroni Beach, Mustique, Windward Islands

157, 159 McBean, Angus (1904-90) 21 McDonald, Donald 29 MacGregor, (Robert) Neil 174 Maeshowe, Mainland, Orkney 18, 55 magic lantern slides 10 Magnolia 196, 269, 272, 273, 279; M. ‘Apollo’

272; M. ‘Atlas’ 272; M. grandiflora 136, 195, 239; M. Jury hybrids 272; M sieboldii 272; M. ‘Vulcan’ 272; M. wilsonii 272 Magson, David 78, 79 Malus × robusta ‘Red Sentinel’ 257 manure 273, 276 Mapperton House, Beaminster, Dorset 21 ‘maquis’ 195, 278 marble, Ashburton 161 marigold 119 Marindin, Brigadier 16 Marindin, Susan Ann Ismay 16 Marlow, Bucks. 240 marrow 11 Marshalsea prison, Southwark, London 227 Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor

Farjeon 10 Marx, Julius Henry ‘Groucho’ (1890-1977) 230 Mathon, Heref. Matteuccia struthiopteris 31 Matthiola incana 246, 269, 275; M.i. ‘Pillow

Talk’ 276, 287

matting, seagrass 235 mattock 238 Mattock, Robert Hunter (1927-2002) 65 Mavisbank House, Loanhead, Midlothian 9 meadow 276; m. flowers 131 meadowsweet 120 medlar 148 Meissen name tags 31 men of oak, Wilts. 98, 214, 241, 291 ‘Mendip Potatoes’ 27 Mendips, Somerset 15 Merlin’s Cave, Richmond Lodge, Surrey 29, 78 Messel, Oliver (1904-78) 21, 157, 159 Midhurst, W. Sussex 178 Midnight Folk, The, (John Masefield) 10 Milky Way 28 Miller, Robert 83 mimosa SEE Acacia miniaturists 209 Mitford, Deborah SEE Devonshire, Deborah

Vivien, Duchess of Mitford, Diana SEE Mosley, Lady Diana Mitford, Jessica Lucy (1917-96) 115 Mitford, Nancy (1904-73) 115, 120 Mlinaric, David 39, 45, 97 mole-proofing 239 Molopospermum peloponnesiacum 278 Monmouth Rebellion (1685) 55 Montgomery, Bernard Law, 1st Viscount

Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976) 241 Moore, Henry Spencer (1898-1986) 17 Morgan car 19 Morris, Sir Cedric Lockwood (1889-1982) 87 Morris, Ernest John ‘Johnnie’ (1916-2000) 10 Mortimer, Sir John Clifford (1923-2009) 55 Morton, Henry Canova Vollam ‘H.V.’ (1892-

1979): The Fountains of Rome 98, 100, 107 mosaic 227 Mosley, Lady Diana (née Freeman-Mitford)

(1910-2003) 115 Mosley, Sir Oswald Ernest (1896-1980) 115 moss 55, 174, 209, 269, 278 Mottisfont Abbey, Hants. 174 mulching 278 mullein 115 mushrooms 12 Mytens, Daniel, The Elder (Daniël Mijtens)

(c1590-1647/48): Portrait of Alathea Talbot 206 Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821) 227, 230 Narcissus 242; N. ‘Actaea’ 276; pheasant’s eye n. 55; N. poeticus var. recurvus 275; N. pseudonarcissus (native daffodil, Lent lily) 55; National Trust 19 Neagu, Paul (1938-2004) 17 Nectaroscordum 179 Nel, Hylton 9 Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’ 84 Nerine 179, 273; N. bowdenii ‘Isabel’ 276 nettle 120 New King’s Road, Chelsea, London 228 New York, City of, Parks Department 181 Newcastle, Northum. 15 Nicolson, Sir Harold George (1886-1968) 26 Nicolson, Lionel Benedict ‘Ben’ 26 Nicolson, Vanessa Pepita Giovanna 26 Nicolson, Vita SEE Sackville-West, Victoria Nicotiana mutabilis 263; N. sylvestris 65, 275;

N. suaveolens 275 nicotine 157 Ninfa, Giardini de, Latina, Lazio, Italy 23, 42 ‘non’-plants 120, 185 Nonsuch Palace, Surrey: Lumley obelisk 219 Norfolk, Edward William ‘Eddie’ Fitzalan-

Howard, 18th Duke of, and Georgina Susan ‘Georgie’ Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of 203, 214; children 214 Nothofagus 238 NSU Quick 50 moped 16 nuraghe, Sardinia 18 nut 49, 172 oak 55, 71, 72, 83, 195, 199, 212, 255; green o. 71, 73, 78, 93, 209, 219; holm o. (ilex o.,

294