By Harold, he’s got it

AFTER 30 years researching the work and life of the great Edwardian garden designer Harold Peto (1854–1933), gardener and garden historian Graeme Moore seems to have finally struck gold. It was back in 1983 that he first saw Peto’s notebook, a handsomeembossed on the spine. The book is kept at Dumbarton Oaks Library and Research Centre in Washington DC, US, where Moore was doing a summer fellowship. He pored over this treasure trove of more than 270 photographs and postcards of gardens, garden architecture, statues and ornaments with cuttings from journals—including plenty from COUNTRY LIFE —wonderful pen-and-ink sketch studies and designs on scraps of paper that he either pasted in or left loose.