This page is archived
Links to external sources may no longer work as intended. The content may not represent the latest thinking in this area or the Society’s current position on the topic.
The Brother Gardeners: the Royal Society and Britain’s obsession with gardening
Andrea Wulf, author of The Brother Gardeners. Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession'
The tale of how a group of passionate plant collectors, botanists and explorers turned Britain into a nation of gardeners. The cast includes Peter Collinson, who brought the American wilderness to British parks; botanists Carl Linnaeus and Daniel Solander; and Sir Joseph Banks, who turned Kew into a storehouse of Empire.