The celebrated entomologist and Bletchley Park codebreaker was also way ahead of the times when it came to gardening.
Miriam Rothschild’s gardening style was the very antithesis of manicured. Writing in Country Life, Mark Griffiths describes her as a ‘pioneer’ of organic and wildflower gardening who ‘dared to entertain the idea (heresy in the 1970s) that it was not only beautiful, but beneficial to find a corn poppy or a corn cockle lurking — like some…
