by Sir Thomas Hanbury, the creator of the celebrated garden, La Mortola, on the Italian Riviera. He gave the Wisley site to the RHS in 1903. The society sold its lease on its gardens in Chiswick in March of that year and moved to Wisley in the April.

The storms of 1987 and 1990 reduced the original wooded area, leaving only a few mature oak trees.

In April 2005, Alan Titchmarsh cut the turf to mark

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