Aldenham House
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Aldenham House near Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, was the seat of Vicary Gibbs, a wealthy financier and avid plant collector who once amassed a larger collection of Chinese flora than the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Gibbs never married, and most of the plant collection was auctioned on his death in 1932, as were the house and gardens [1]. The site today accommodates the Hilfield Reservoir, the Lister Institute, the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and Haberdashers' Aske's Girls' School.
[edit] References
- ^ Audrey Le Lievre (1986). An Account of the Garden at Aldenham House and of Its Makers: Henry Hucks Gibbs, Vicary Gibbs and Edwin Beckett. Garden History, Vol. 14, No. 2. (Autumn, 1986), pp. 173-193.
