Graham Stuart Thomas

Grahame Stuart Thomas (1909-2003) was a partner at Sunningdale Nurseries in the mid 1940s and Gardens Advisor to the National Trust from 1955. In the 1960s he was awarded the RHS's Veitch Memorial Medal and the Victoria Medal of Honour. Appointed OBE in 1975, he is recognised as a horticulturalist, rosarian, writer and artist.


Valerie Finnis (1924-2006) was a British horticulurist, plant photographer and lecturer, who was long-associated with the Waterperry Horticultural School for Women, Oxfordshire.