Great gardening history talk. Michael is demonstrating an old watering pot.
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| Michael is holding a mouse trap |
Today we had a talk on gardening history with historian
and gardener Michael Brown, who looked at how we gardened from Roman times
onwards. These are some of the tools and gardening impliments,
beginning with a watering device. Its been a facinating morning.
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| An earwig catcher. Stems of cow parsley |
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| the leather shoes stopped horses hooves from marking the grass as it was being cut and the pull early mowing devices. |
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| Another earwig catcher. |
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| A lantern to scar away toads and wide shears. |
