Gardens and Gardeners (Hard)

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1. Not long before Percy Thrower, the gardener & broadcaster was born, his father was appointed head gardener, where? (picture hint: top left)
2. By what name is Lancelot Brown better known?
3. John Fleming was the head gardener, where?
5. William Mayerl, the pianist and composer loved his garden and so named his house what? (picture hint: top right)
6. John Nash, the artist/plantsman illustrated the book ‘poisonous plants’ - where was he living at the time?
9. Rheumatologist Eric Bywaters, had a dahlia that he was particularly proud of. What was its name?
12. What kind of garden, did Eleanour Rohde help set up, which was to be a first at Chelsea?
14. Primrose Roper’s occupations were gardener and what?

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2. Where did Richard Cox live?
4. Name the variety of apple produced by Richard Cox.
7. Maud Grieve became Buckinghamshire’s representative for ‘Daughters of Ceres’, a movement concerned with increasing opportunities for women in which sector?
8. Patrick Buxton, the medical entomologist, was an enthusiastic and exotic gardener, what was he affectionately known as?
10. Wilberforce Bryant was host to agricultural and horticultural shows held where in Buckinghamshire?
11. Name the famous Buckinghamshire Landscape Gardens (pictured bottom right) that Lancelot Brown worked on.
13. Which property near Gerrards Cross had its gardens transformed and extended when Bentinck, First Earl of Portland purchased it in 1706?
15. Wilberforce Bryant was a keen gardener, but is better known for the manufacture of what?