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Morning glory arrangement by Constance Spry (around 1930) Photo: Cowderoy & Moss Ltd; RHS Lindley Collections It is not exactly a story of rags to riches, but Constance Spry, the daughter of a railway clerk, reached the pinnacle of society through trade and art. An exhibition at London’s Garden Museum of around 100 photographs, personal items and artefacts never before exhibited will tell the story of one of the 20th century’s most colourful and influential florists. Spry was trained in bacteriology and sanitary inspection but in 1921 she became principal of a day school in London’s Hackney where poverty and deprivation were rife. Consequently, her true metier came late. It was not until she reached her early 40s that Spry gave up teaching and opened a shop, called Flower Decoration, in 1929. Her first formal patron was Granada Cinemas but it was her daring arrangements of hedgerow flowers in the window of the royal perfumer Atkinsons of New ....
Big names in gardening dig in to help an Australian conference We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Robin Powell Normal text size Advertisement Is there an upside to having a global pandemic take off about a fortnight before you are to launch your first conference? I asked Fleur Flanery, who this time last year was anticipating an enthusiastic response to her inaugural Australian Landscape Conference, a much-loved biennial exchange of the latest international thinking on garden and landscape design that she had bought in 2019. “An upside? I’m not willing to say that yet,” she replied. ....