Regional Furniture Society, 180, 201, 203, 211, 238 Reseda luteola (weld), 144 Robert, the Lawleys’ architect, 188 Rosa ‘Capitaine John Ingram’, 113 Rosa ‘Cardinal de Richelieu’, 113 Rosa ‘Gloire de Dijon’, 104 Rosa mundi (R. gallica ‘Versicolor’), 140 Rosa pimpinellifolia (Scots Burnet rose), 138 Rosa ‘Tuscany’, 140 Rosa × alba ‘Alba Maxima’, 137, 142 Rosa × alba ‘Maiden’s Blush’, 137 Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, 44 Ruskin, John, 61

Sackville-West, Vita, 60 sage, meadow, see Salvia Salix alba (white willow), 16, 159 Salix alba var. sericea, 159 Salix elaeagnos, 159 Salix glauca (grey-leaved willow), 50 salsify, see Tragopogon Salvia pratensis (meadow sage), 112, 123 Salvia sclarea var. turkestanica, 144 Sanguisorba canadensis, 156 Sanguisorba officinalis (great burnet), 16 Sarcococca, 136, 138 Saxifraga cuneifolia, 126 Saxifraga umbrosa, 126 Saxifraga umbrosa ‘Elliot’s Variety’, 166 Saxifraga × urbium ‘Aureopunctata’, 107 Scabiosa (scabious), 110, 114 scabious, field, see Knautia Sedum telephium ‘Atropurpureum Group’, 112 serratula, 113 shelter belt, 101 shutters, 185–6, 190–1 Silene compacta, 133 Silene dioica (pink campion), 110 Silene dioica ‘Flore Pleno’

(double red campion), 120–1

Sissinghurst, 31–2, 38, 50, 76 sitouterie, 153–6 Sium sisarum (skirret), 143 skirret, see Sium snowberry, yellow variegated, see Symphoricarpus Snowshill Manor, 8 southernwood, see Artemesia spignel, see Meum spirea, 104 staddle stone, 151, 173 stone troughs, 386, 96, 106, 115, 158 stone walls, 31, 72, 90, 144 studio, 26, 28, 185, 188, 214, 215, 217, 238 sundial, 15, 106, 114, 123, 145, 155, 167, 188 Sutton Place, 150 Symphoricarpus orbiculatus (yellow variegated snowberry), 135 Symphytum officinale (comfrey), 143

Taxus baccata (yew), 31, 48, 49, 75, 78, 104–8, 113–16, 131–6, 145–6, 149, 153, 156–9, 162, 188, 205, 236 Taxus baccata ‘Elegantissima’ (golden yew), 104, 127 Taxus baccata ‘Fastigiata’ (green Irish yew), 80, 105–6, 116 Taylor, Patrick, 147, 205 terrace, 48, 147–150, 156 Teucrium fruticans, 49 thistle, melancholy, see Cirsium Thomas, Graham Stuart, 37, 47–8, 52, 103, 107, 142 at Moseley Old Hall, 49 at Wallington, 25, 41, 44, 47–9 Thompson, Flora, 6 Lark Rise to Candleford, 6 Thompson, Miss Molly, 25–6, 88, 212 Thymus herba-barona, 142

Thymus pulegioides ‘Aureus’, 132 Tidy, Mr (‘Mr Tidy’), retired gardener, Whittingham, 37, 139, 181 Tinlin (Marjorie’s) family Alan, the middle brother, 93, 95, 99, 178, 183, 206 Betty, Marjorie’s mother, 24, 26, 30, 34¸ 42, 52, 61–5, 78, 89, 198, 206 –7, 214 Bill, Marjorie’s father, 24, 48, 51, 63–8, 81, 93, 178, 196, 234 Norman, Uncle, a stone-waller, 89, 137 topiary, 31–3, 72, 75, 89–90, 114–15, 130 –2, 139, 141, 152–4, 158, 161, 236 Towb, Mrs Elsie, 200, 207 Tragopogon porrifolius (salsify), 143 Trevelyan George Macaulay, 181 Lady Mary (Molly), 6, 48, 63–4, 210 Lady Pauline, 61–3, 77 Patricia, 51 Sir Charles, 13, 24, 30, 51, 60, 67 Troublesome Times, The, WI local history study, 176 Tulipa sprengeri, 113 Turkey work, 199, 215–16, 229

valerian, white, see Centranthus Verbascum chaixii ‘Album’ (white mullein), 133 Verey, Rosemary and Lees-Milne, Alvilde The Englishman’s Garden, 15, 109, 211, 218–19 Veronica, 112 Veronicastrum, 110, 113 Viburnum opulus (guelder rose), 103 Viburnum × bodnantense, 138 Vinca minor f. alba Gertrude Jekyll (periwinkle), 106

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