{"id":11119,"date":"2019-02-08T07:58:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T07:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=11119"},"modified":"2019-02-08T07:59:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T07:59:44","slug":"james-veitch-and-sons-nurserymen-garden-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/james-veitch-and-sons-nurserymen-garden-design\/","title":{"rendered":"James Veitch and Sons nurserymen and garden designers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veitch&#8217;s Chelsea nursery ceased trading in 1914, rather appropriately for the greatest horticultural firm in British history. It was founded in the eighteenth century\u00a0 and in the nineteenth century took advantage of peace, prosperity and sea power to engage in plant collecting on a world scale.\u00a0 It brought 1281 new plants into cultivation and undertook significant design projects including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/gardens\/killerton_house_and_garden\">Killerton<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/gardens\/ascott_garden\">Ascott<\/a>. Sir Harry Veitch played a key role in moving the RHS Flower Show to Chelsea.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11122\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/veitch_chelsea_flower_show.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11122\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11122\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/veitch_chelsea_flower_show-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/veitch_chelsea_flower_show-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/veitch_chelsea_flower_show-624x560.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/veitch_chelsea_flower_show.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A royal visit to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/garden_design\/shows_festivals\/chelsea_flower_show\">Chelsea Flower Show<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>There is much to be said for the involvement of horticultural firms in garden design <em>providing<\/em> they have the good sense to work with talented and independent-minded garden designers. There is a risk of &#8216;in-house&#8217; designers being over-influenced by technical and business managers with insufficient design judgement for the work in hand. As Winston Churchill remarked, experts should be on tap but not on tap. What they bring to garden design is a focus on high quality planting and construction: very necessary but of limited value when deployed to make a mediocre design.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11121\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/veitch_catalogue_nursery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11121\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/veitch_catalogue_nursery-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Veitch &amp; Sons Nursery Cataogue\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/veitch_catalogue_nursery-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/veitch_catalogue_nursery-624x806.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/veitch_catalogue_nursery.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Veitch &amp; Sons Nursery Cataogue<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veitch&#8217;s Chelsea nursery ceased trading in 1914, rather appropriately for the greatest horticultural firm in British history. It was founded in the eighteenth century\u00a0 and in the nineteenth century took advantage of peace, prosperity and sea power to engage in plant collecting on a world scale.\u00a0 It brought 1281 new plants into cultivation and undertook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11124,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119\/revisions\/11124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}