One man’s passion
No service today, working with daffodils’ was a note that Reverend George Herbert Engleheart (1851-1936) would often tack to the church door before returning to his garden to breed daffodils. And what daffodils they are: ‘Bath Flame’, ‘Helios’, ‘Lady Margaret Boswell’, ‘White Lady’, ‘Seagull’, the list goes on and on. Over 40 years he developed more than 700 cultivars, many of which, by the early 1900s, graced gardens here and abroad in their millions.
Engleheart was in some ways a typical late Victorian gentleman-clergyman; at the time it was
