Royal Horticultural Society's Garden, Wisley

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Trial field in Wisley

The garden of the Royal Horticultural Society in Wisley is out of Woking in Surrey (Region South East England ).

history

The Oakwood estate with 24 hectares of land was acquired in 1878 by retired factory owner George Fergusson Wilson . He was an avid gardener and planted the Oakwood experimental Garden , where he cultivated rare ornamental plants. He also bred lilies , gentians and Japanese iris varieties. The wild garden is located here today. Most of the property was used as pasture and forest, Ortstein made it a less fertile heather.

After Wilson's death in 1902, the Quaker Thomas Hanbury acquired the estate along with the adjacent Glebe farm. He transferred the property to the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in 1903. They planted large ornamental gardens and greenhouses here, and Wisley became the replacement for a property in Chiswick that the company had leased since 1822 and the large ornamental garden in Kensington that had to be sold in 1870 to avert the bankruptcy of the company.

There is a 6.5 hectare tree garden on the site , which contains 660 apple, 125 pear and 100 plum varieties, some of which are grown as trellis fruit . In 1904 the first greenhouse was built. An extensive rock garden was created in 1910 by James Pulham with the help of a specially built railway line. In 1914-16 a laboratory building was built in the Arts and Crafts style , which contains parts of demolished mansions. In the 1960s, Lanning Roper and Geoffrey Jellicoe dug a canal in front of the laboratory that now contains a large collection of water lilies . 2006-07 another large greenhouse was built on the western edge of the site and a pond was created. The green spaces in the Dutch prairie style were designed by Tom Stuart-Smith .

Wisley today

Dahlia exhibition, September 2014

Today the site is located directly on the M25 and A3 from London to Portsmouth . RHS trains gardeners in Wisley and maintains Portsmouth trial fields where garden flowers are tested. The ornamental gardens and greenhouses are open to RHS members and the paying public. There are also garden markets and garden exhibitions on the site, and a garden center sells ornamental plants and woody plants. Together with Plumpton College in Lewes , the RHS operates a Wingert in Wisley whose products are to be processed into wine. On the Hill Battleston a traditional double English trim was discounts on a large scale created. The administrator's office is in the Weather Hill cottage. On the former pastureland, which was meliorized by deep plowing , there are now two ponds and a Chinese garden with a pavilion made of Chinese redwood donated by the People's Republic of China . The typical barren heathland was largely destroyed.

The garden maintains the National Collection for crocuses , heather , rhubarb , snowdrops and elven flowers . After a successful trial cultivation in Wisley, a garden plant variety can be given the title "Particularly Garden Merit " by experts appointed by the RHS , which is very sales-promoting. This title has been awarded since 1922. Since 2002 old awards have been checked again and revised if necessary.

The plant disease specialists and entomologists of the RHS are based in Wisley.

There is an alpine house in Wisley

At the alpine house in Wisley

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ladder

  • Jim Gardiner (since 1987)

Web links

Commons : RHS Wisley  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carolyn Fry, A Passion for Plants. Behind the scenes at the Royal Horticultural society (London, BBC Books 2007) 67
  2. ↑ Jane Owen, Diarmuid Gavin, Gardens through time (London, BBC Books 2004) 64
  3. ↑ Carolyn Fry, A Passion for Plants. Behind the scenes at the Royal Horticultural society (London, BBC Books 2007) 66
  4. ↑ Carolyn Fry, A Passion for Plants. Behind the scenes at the Royal Horticultural society (London, BBC Books 2007) 68
  5. ↑ Carolyn Fry, A Passion for Plants. Behind the scenes at the Royal Horticultural society (London, BBC Books 2007) 69
  6. ↑ Carolyn Fry, A Passion for Plants. Behind the scenes at the Royal Horticultural society (London, BBC Books 2007) 67
  7. ↑ Carolyn Fry, A Passion for Plants. Behind the scenes at the Royal Horticultural society (London, BBC Books 2007) 68
  8. ↑ Carolyn Fry, A Passion for Plants. Behind the Scenes at the Royal Horticultural Society (London, BBC Books 2007) 59
  9. ↑ https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/trials-awards/award-of-garden-merit