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Snobbery in the garden: U and non-U borders

When Richard Sudell began promoting pyracantha, hanging baskets and crazy paving in the 1920s, the backlash from the gardening elite was vicious and immediate

20 July 2024

9:00 AM

20 July 2024

9:00 AM

Behind the Privet Hedge: Richard Sudell, the Suburban Garden and the Beautification of Britain Michael Gilson

Reaktion, pp.328, 16.95

The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness and the Space in Between Richard Mabey

Profile, pp.160, 12.99

Richard Sudell is the forgotten hero of the gardening revolution in Britain between the first and second world wars. A Quaker, born in Lancashire in 1892, the son of a straw and hay dealer, he left school at 14 and became a gardener, worked at Kew, then went to prison as a conscientious objector in 1916.

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