Botanical Yorkshire

Botanical Yorkshire. . Yorkshire has produced some significant gardeners and plants, which are celebrated in the gardens., Quinine , Quinine is a vital ingredient in treating malaria. This disease still kills 800,000 people each year. The tree from which Quinine is extracted (Cinchona Pubescens) was collected in South America by Yorkshireman Richard Spruce in the nineteenth century. There are plans for other species collected by Spruce to be planted in the gardens., Lupin , This flower is significant to York. George Russell spent two decades crossing two varieties of Lupin at his allotment on Bishopthorpe Road. He succeeded in breeding a perfect Lupin and 60 years later nearly every Lupin plant sold is a hybrid of his original plants., The Backhouse Nursery , Naturalists, Thomas and James Backhouse ran a famous nursery here in York, from 1815. They championed rockeries and grottos in British gardening. Together they also helped to establish the botanical collections of the Yorkshire Museum.