The world's leading gardening charity, founded in London in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London with John Wedgwood among its founders. It runs the Chelsea Flower Show, trials plants and confers the Award of Garden Merit, and its gardens and libraries anchor British horticulture. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Gertrude Jekyll, Figures the RHS awarded Jekyll its Victoria Medal of Honour in 1897 (Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee), the first woman to receive the Society's highest horticultural honor
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founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London
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