A garden never stops growing
Feb 23, 2022
1 minute
Edited by Annunciata Elwes
IT’S 200 years since the first RHS garden opened, not at Wisley (), the charity’s oldest site, but in Chiswicka 33-acre patch of fertile soil was leased from the Duke of Devonshire, whose nearby home) was attracting 4,000 visitors a year, but, towards the end of the century, the RHS needed a site ‘beyond the radius of the London smoke’.
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