Meet the Garden Gang

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And the good news is that I have been in touch with them, and we will be given an introduction to the gardens by Dougal Philip, the original founder of the business!

At the age of 9 years, Jayne was the youngest author to ever write for Ladybird Books. [2] [3] Her writing and illustrating has been an inspiration to others. [4] [5] Books [ edit ]Online, I have been alerted by Kathy to the virtual tours of Kew Gardens. If we can't physically go and wander around a beautiful garden, we can at least do it virtually. Our January indoor meeting was spent in the company of Douglas whose illustrated talk took us through the history of gardens in Scotland from the earliest evidence, through to about 1800. He began by making the point that gardens are fashionable constructions and that they change. But just as some people continue to wear the clothes that they had been comfortable in the young days, so some gardens were so liked by their owners that they didn’t update them. The introduction of Capability Brown’s rural idyll style occurred in the mid-18th century, leading to vast re-landscaping schemes – local examples being at the Inch in Renfrew and Castle Semple in Lochwinnoch. Castle Semple also boasted a fine walled garden where gardeners manipulated the climate by growing fruit trees along differently facing walls according to their individual needs – south-facing for apricots or north-facing for cherries for example. Written by Jayne Fisher, the Garden Gang series were small books that each featured two stories about a fruit or vegetable like Penelope Strawberry or Roger Radish.

As gardens are very much a seasonal pastime we hope to tailor our visits to see various gardens at their best and in deepest, darkest winter we will also have some indoor meetings. We also hope to visit gardens of various types – those associated with stately homes, botanical collections, private gardens opened under the Scotland’s Garden Scheme, allotments and community gardens and gardens created with ‘wellness’ in mind. An outline of the programme for the first half of 2020 was revealed, including trips to see snowdrops at Finlaystone and daffodils at Greenbank, plus a visit to Horatio’s Garden at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, scheduled for June.The Garden Gang was a series of books for children written by Jayne Fisher. They were published by Ladybird Books during the late 1970s and early 1980s as Series 413 and later re-issued as Series 793. [1] Fourteen story books were written, each containing two short stories about a group of characters who were fruit and vegetables living an almost human life, selling over 8 million copies [ citation needed]. In addition to the fourteen story books, there were also three other books - an annual and two colouring books. Fisher's books were not dissimilar to the popular Munch Bunch series, also devised by a young girl, the fourteen-year-old Angela Mitson. [ citation needed] I thought the art looked like it was drawn by a child, and it turns out that it was -- the Garden Gang series was both written and illustrated by a nine year old. I didn't really enjoy them, as the author/illustrator wasn't *my* nine year old.