A single meeting between Graham Stuart Thomas and Gertrude Jekyll shaped the career and thinking of the ‘greatest gardener ever’, says Charles Quest-Ritson. But at what cost?
Graham Stuart Thomas — perhaps the greatest gardener ever — was for many years gardens adviser to the National Trust. It was not his only career, because he started his working life as a nurseryman and ended it as the author of many of our most influential books about plants and gardens. But…
