Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild - botanist and gardener
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Sophie Piebanga
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| Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild - botanist and gardener |
| Early influences |
| Gunnersbury |
| Waddesdon Manor |
| Orchid grower |
| Contribution to Sandringham |
| Benefactor and patron |
| Endnotes and sources |
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Picnic at Waddesdon Manor, 1880sBaron Ferdinand de Rothschild was, in the words of the Princess Royal
to her mother, Queen Victoria, ‘an excellent gardener and a good
botanist'. Sophie Piebanga looks at his work and the legacy that lives on today in the garden he created at Waddesdon in Buckinghamshire.
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