This week it’s:
The National Trust
We look at facts and figures relating to this conservation organisation
REGULAR readers will know that each week there is an item on these pages called ‘This Week in Gardening History’, where I look at something, or someone, significant to gardening in that particular week in years past. Well, in these pages all the items are commemorating something that occurred on 12 January 1895. It was on this day, after many months of discussion, that the National Trust (NT) was founded. Social reformer Octavia Hill, civil servant Sir Robert Hunter and conservationist Hardwicke Rawnsley were the founders, whose aims were to promote “the permanent preservation for the benefit of the Nation
