From which country did the first garden gnomes come to the UK?
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"for each of which only one or two other copies were known. The above four works found their way into the Britwell Court Library before being sold in February 1922 to A.S.W. Rosenbach for £3,600. Charles Isham Sir Charles Edmund Isham, 10th Baronet (16 December 1819 – 7 April 1903) was an English landowner and gardener based at Lamport Hall, Northampton. He is credited with beginning the tradition of garden gnomes in the United Kingdom when he introduced a number of terracotta figures from Germany in the 1840s. Nicknamed ""Lampy"", the only gnome of the original batch to survive is"
"Charles Isham Sir Charles Edmund Isham, 10th Baronet (16 December 1819 – 7 April 1903) was an English landowner and gardener based at Lamport Hall, Northampton. He is credited with beginning the tradition of garden gnomes in the United Kingdom when he introduced a number of terracotta figures from Germany in the 1840s. Nicknamed ""Lampy"", the only gnome of the original batch to survive is on display at Lamport Hall and insured for £1 million. Isham was educated at Rugby School and Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1846, on the death of his elder brother, he succeeded to the baronetcy. He"
"Isham, 10th Baronet is credited with beginning the tradition of garden gnomes in the United Kingdom when he introduced a number of terracotta figures from (Germany) in the 1840s. In 1568 John Isham, a wealthy wool merchant, built a manor house on the Lamport Estate. His grandson, also named John, became the first baronet in 1627 during the reign of Charles I. He extended the house considerably. However, the only remains of this structure is a section of the present stable wing. It was Sir Justinian Isham who built the main existing building. In 1655 he commissioned John Webb, a"
"Garden gnome Garden gnomes () are lawn ornament figurines of small humanoid creatures known as gnomes. Traditionally, the figurines depict male dwarfs wearing red pointy hats. Typically, gnomes stand between one and two feet tall. A recent trend has introduced miniature gnomes of only a few inches in height. Originating as a decoration for wealthy Europeans, garden gnomes are now prevalent in gardens and lawns throughout the western world, among all social classes. In ancient Rome, small stone statues depicting the Greco-Roman fertility god Priapus, also the protector of floors, were frequently placed in Roman gardens. Gnomes as magical creatures"
"gardens from China in the early Edo period (probably between 1611 and 1629, according to ""Garden Plants of Japan""). Its introduction into European gardens, from Japan, is noted for England, 1766, when it was grown under glass for the sixth Earl of Coventry in the conservatory at Croome Court, Worcestershire. By 1799 that shrub had grown to be 16 feet high and 10 feet wide. By that time it had been tried out of doors without winter protection and proved hardy in the south of England. Slips of it were distributed among nurserymen and so it entered European horticulture. A"
"have been depicted in paintings, such as those of the Song Emperor Huizong, and the Tenth century artist Xu Xi. The Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368) saw it on lacquerware, and the Ming Dynasty on porcelain (1368–1644). Gardenias were seen in nurseries in Guangzhou in 1794 by English statesman Sir John Barrow. Meanwhile, it was first propagated in England in August 1757 by a James Gordon of Mile End, and sold well thereafter. It was first grown in the United States in 1762, in the Charleston garden of Alexander Garden, who had moved there 10 years previously. In cultivation in the UK,"
"returning them, as part of their purported mission to ""free"" gnomes and ""return them to the wild"", which has sometimes led to criminal charges, jail time, or fines. The concept of the travelling gnome dates back to the 1970s when Henry Sunderland photographed his own garden gnomes, which he named Harry and Charlie, while he was travelling around Antarctica. The earliest record of a prank involving a traveling gnome is from Australia in 1986 when the ""Sydney Morning Herald"" reported an ""Eastern Suburbs gnome-owner was distressed when she discovered her gnome had been stolen at the weekend. A note was"
"first laid out in the 16th century, although the present planting is largely of the 20th century. The garden walls enclose a 16th-century doocot, or pigeon house. The Norman family of de Vaux originated in Rouen, northern France, and settled in England following the Norman Conquest of 1066. Two de Vaux brothers, or cousins, were among a number of Anglo-Norman knights invited to Scotland, and granted land, by King David I of Scotland in the 12th century. Hubert de Vaux was given the barony of Gilsland in Cumbria, at that time part of Scotland, while John de Vaux was granted"
"knot gardens were composed of square compartments. A small garden might consist of one compartment, while large gardens might contain six or eight compartments. Knot gardens were first established in England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Some early knot gardens have been covered over by lawn or other landscaping, but the original traces are still visible as undulations in the present day landscape. An example of this phenomenon is the early 17th-century garden of Muchalls Castle in Scotland. Knot gardens have become established in many temperate formal gardens throughout the world, including: A knot garden is featured in"
"are loaned to visitors free of charge so they can blend in. Gnomes sometimes go missing. The Reserve has refused to sell gnomes with knives in their backs. Watermouth Castle, also in North Devon, which is home to Gnome Land, a gnome themed amusement park. Gnome Reserve The Gnome Reserve is a garden and tourist attraction at West Putford, near Bradworthy, Devon, England, presented as a pastoral refuge for garden gnomes. The reserve was established in 1979 by Ann Atkin, a former art student. According to her own account:"".. while painting birds in landscapes I came to what was like"
"its long history of domestication. Gourds were cultivated in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas for thousands of years before Columbus' discovery of the Americas. Historically, in Europe Walahfrid Strabo (808–849), abbot and poet from Reichenau and advisor to the Carolingian kings, discussed the gourd in his ""Hortulus"" as one of the 23 plants of an ideal garden. Recent research indicates that some gourds have an African origin and that there were at least two unrelated domestications: one is thought to have occurred 8,000-9,000 years ago, based on the analysis of archeological samples found in Asia. The second domestication is"
"garden flower, ""P. orientalis"" is still seldom to be seen in British gardens, although it has been grown in Britain since at least 1818 - as noted by Robert Sweet : This pretty Spring-flowering plant was raised from seed, received from Moscow, by Messrs. Whitley, Brames and Milne, at Fulham in the year 1818. [ Note: the Fulham nursery of the above-mentioned Whitley, Brames and Milne was founded originally by Matthew Burchell ( c. 1752-1828 ), father of the celebrated naturalist William Burchell. It was owned subsequently - in various partnerships - by nurseryman Reginald Whitley ( c.1754-1835 ).] In"
"Mexico, Italy, and Thailand. After it was returned for the second time, the original owner, referring to it as ""the prodigal gnome"", said she had decided to keep it and would not sell it on eBay again. There have also been a number of criminal incidents in which individuals or groups steal large numbers of garden gnomes without the intention of returning, often with the purported mission of ""freeing"" gnomes and ""returning them to the wild"". These crimes can cause distress to the victims of the theft, particularly if the gnomes have sentimental value. France's Garden Gnome Liberation Front (),"
"created at the turn of the twentieth century. From about 1830 very large game chickens were imported to England, where they became fashionable and were selectively bred by English breeders. Some imports are documented from the Malay Peninsula, others from the Deccan of India. Those from India were sometimes called Grey Chittagongs, but were considered to be closely similar to the Malay. They were particularly numerous in Devon and Cornwall, especially in the area round Falmouth, which was a common first port of call for returning East Indiamen. They were also numerous in Ireland, in the area of Dublin. Malays"
"gardens for themselves. During the French Revolution, many French nobles went into exile in England, and brought back with them the new style of gardening. In 1743, Father Attiret, a French Jesuit priest and painter in service to the Emperor of China, wrote a series of letters describing the Chinese gardens he had seen. In particular he described the Emperor's summer residence, Yuanming Yuan near Beijing: Attiret's letters were a success in both France and in England, where they were translated and published in 1752. They had an important influence on what became known as the Anglo-Chinese garden. In 1757"
"James Smith (gardener) James Smith (fl. 1780s) was one of two gardeners trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London and sent by Joseph Banks to care for plants on a voyage to the British colony in New Holland (Australia) in 1789. Together with fellow gardener George Austin, Smith travelled on the fated storeship HMS ""Guardian"" carrying supplies to the new colony as a follow-up to the ships of the First Fleet which had arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788. The vessel was specially fitted out to carry agricultural crops to the new colony and the two gardeners"
"into England in the early 1760s while working as a gardener for Dr Silvester of Hackney, prior to setting up his own seed and nursery business. The young plants were supplied to the Marquis of Rockingham whose interest led to great enthusiasm for growing the species in British gardens. Conrad's son George Loddiges is generally credited with raising the profile of the exotic Hackney nursery at least as greatly, if not more so, than his eminent horticulturalist father. In 1833 the Loddiges began using the newly developed Wardian Case to transport live plants from Australia, and also had a keen"
"in the Old World are exclusively hermaphrodite with perfect flowers. As garden shrubs buddlejas are essentially 20th-century plants, with the exception of ""B. globosa"" which was introduced to Britain from southern Chile in 1774 and disseminated from the nursery of Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith. Several species are popular garden plants, the species are commonly known as 'butterfly bushes' owing to their attractiveness to butterflies, and have become staples of the modern butterfly garden; they are also attractive to bees and moths. The most popular cultivated species is ""Buddleja davidii"" from central China, named for the French Basque missionary and naturalist"
"grew the plants in a pot on his window sill. In 1979 at a Botanical Society of the British Isles conference he presented seeds to several of his colleagues. Through him the plants began to be cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and Edinburgh. Stewart Henchie, a botanist from Kew Gardens, began a project to re-introduce the interrupted brome into the wild. Under his leadership, Kew Gardens and Paignton Zoo grew large quantities of the plants to procure seeds for an eventual re-introduction. In the summer of 2004, these seeds were dispersed at English Nature's Aston Rowant National"
"nursery had imported seed of a palm from Brazil which they dubbed ""Cocos plumosa"" in their catalogue, a ""nomen nudum"". The horticulturist John Claudius Loudon in 1830 listed this plant among 3 species of the ""Cocos"" genus then grown in Britain, and mentioned its possible identification as Karl von Martius' ""C. comosa"". One of Loddiges' seedlings had eventually found it's way to the new palm stove built at Kew Gardens in the 1840s, where it had grown to a height of 50-60ft, and where botanists had been determined it to be another of von Martius' species; ""C. coronata"". In 1859"
"Greece, Turkey, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, USA, Canada, Korea, and Japan. Thompson and Morgan had its origins in a small garden behind a baker's shop in Ipswich, where a young William Thompson's passion for botany grew. His specialty was growing rare and unusual plants whose seeds were sent from countries all over the world. Not only did it provide a sense of adventure for Thompson, it also established friendships with such scientists as Charles Darwin, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker and Sir Michael Foster. From the back garden he moved to a nursery at the edge of Ipswich and then to"
"the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. These were sent to India for cultivation, but died. A second attempt was then made, some 70,000 seeds being smuggled to Kew in 1875, by Henry Wickham, in the service of the British Empire. About four percent of these germinated, and in 1876, about 2,000 seedlings were sent, in Wardian cases, to Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka) and 22 were sent to the Botanic Gardens in Singapore. Once established outside its native country, rubber was extensively propagated in the British colonies. Rubber trees were brought to the botanical gardens at Buitenzorg, Java, in 1883. By"
"Gnome Reserve The Gnome Reserve is a garden and tourist attraction at West Putford, near Bradworthy, Devon, England, presented as a pastoral refuge for garden gnomes. The reserve was established in 1979 by Ann Atkin, a former art student. According to her own account:"".. while painting birds in landscapes I came to what was like a T Junction in my painting development. I did not know whether to turn left or right as different elements of what I liked in painting appeared irreconcilably in opposite directions. It was very disturbing! Until – one day – a gnome appeared in my"
"introduced to England at Blithfield Hall in the 1380s. They were probably brought back to England by returning Crusaders, and probably trace their ancestry to goats of the Rhone valley. The goats were said to have been given to John Bagot of Blithfield by King Richard II of England to commemorate good hunting the King had enjoyed at Blithfield. Whilst romantic notions on the foreign origins of the Bagot were widely promoted as true, scientific research, including DNA profiling has disproved any link between the Bagot and the Valais Blacknecks, but rather identified that they originated from isolation of a"
"gardening. Glenn was born in the United Kingdom to a family with a history of gardening. He emigrated to Australia in the 1960s. David and his still-life painter wife, Criss Canning, established Lambley in 1987. Prior to this time Glenn conducted a wholesale plant nursery at Olinda in Melbourne's, Dandenong Ranges. The name of the garden refers to Glenn's childhood home, Lambley Village in Nottinghamshire in the east midlands region of England in the United Kingdom. Plants selected by Glenn are grown throughout the world. The patented Euphorbia x martini 'Ascot Rainbow' is to be found in gardens throughout Europe"
"were to care for the plants during the voyage. Plants were supplied by Brentford nurseryman Hugh Ronalds, at Banks' request. For details of the voyage and its fate see George Austin. James Smith (gardener) James Smith (fl. 1780s) was one of two gardeners trained at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London and sent by Joseph Banks to care for plants on a voyage to the British colony in New Holland (Australia) in 1789. Together with fellow gardener George Austin, Smith travelled on the fated storeship HMS ""Guardian"" carrying supplies to the new colony as a follow-up to the ships"
"and improved while undesirable species were eliminated. Eventually alien species were also selected and incorporated into the gardens. The enclosure of outdoor space began in 10,000 BC. Though no one knows the specific details of the first garden, historians imagine the first enclosure was a type of barrier for excluding animals and marauders. Garden construction and design was a primary precursor to landscape architecture, and it began in West Asia, eventually spreading westward into Greece, Spain, Germany, France, Britain, etc. The modern words of ""garden"" and ""yard"" are descendants of the Old English ""geard"", which denotes a fence or enclosure."
"in 1837 by George Jones (a businessman from Islington in north London) in one of the disused chalk pits in Northfleet, covering an area of 17 acres (69,000 m²). Their full title was the 'Kent Zoological and Botanical Gardens Institution’. The gardens were built on a chalk pit owned by Jeremiah Rosher who, from 1830, started building a new town, Rosherville, taking advantage of Gravesend’s popularity with Londoners visiting for the day by steamboat along the Thames. They became a favourite destination for thousands of Londoners during good weather, many travelling by paddle steamer down the River Thames to disembark"
"made from terracotta clay slip (runny clay) poured into molds. This is allowed to set up and the excess emptied from the centre, leaving a clay shell. The gnome is removed from the mold when firm, allowed to dry and then fired in a kiln until hard. Once cooled, the gnome is painted. More modern gnomes are made from resins and similar materials. Today, many different variations of garden gnomes exist, including humorous ones ranging from the lighthearted biker or barbecuing gnome, to the more dark, such as one stabbed in the back or wearing an executioner's hood. Garden gnome"
"first introduced to England between 1835 and 1851. Lord Derby sent botanist Joseph Burke to collect animals, either alive or dead, from South Africa for his museum and menagerie. The first elands introduced in England were a pair of common elands, and what would later be identified as a giant eland bull. The details were recorded in Smith-Stanley's privately printed work, ""Cleanings from the Menagerie at Knowsley Hall"". The Latin name indicates that it ""belonged to"" (given by the suffix -""anus"") Derby, hence ""derbianus"". Although the giant eland is somewhat larger than the common eland, the epithet 'giant' actually refers"
"Shepherd. In 1692 it was inherited by Thomas Coke (1675–1727), a gentleman architect in the golden age of English amateur architecture, who laid out the formal gardens that survive, with some professional assistance from Henry Wise, between about 1696 and 1706: there are avenues, a parterre, a yew walk that has become a yew tunnel, basins and fountains, and lead and stone sculpture, much of it supplied by John Nost. Coke travelled in the Netherlands and he turned to Nost, the famous statuary born in the Austrian Netherlands, with premises in Haymarket, London, who provided lead figures of amorini, vases,"
"Clan Jardine Clan Jardine is a Lowland Scottish clan. The surname Jardine is derived from ""jardin"" which is French for ""garden"" or ""orchard"". However the genealogist, Black, has suggested that this does not mean that they were gardeners, but that they resided near to a garden. The du Jardon family came over to England in 1066 with William the Conqueror. The name is first found in Scotland in charters to Kelso Abbey and Arbroath Abbey prior to 1153, when Wmfredus de Jardin appears as a witness. In about 1178 Humphrey de Jardin witnessed a charter by Robert Bruce to Arbroath"