John Baxendale of the Nether Edge History Society tells us about Marnock’s extensive work in this Sheffield suburb.

Many thanks to Paul Rabbitts for these photos of conifers planted by Marnock in Leighton Buzzard over 150 years ago.

As part of the celebrations, the current owners welcomed visitors to see Marnock’s design for his own home in Kent.

To celebrate Marnock, the Friends of Sheffield Botanical Gardens are commissioning a pair of benches inspired by a Victorian engraving.

Marnock used many exotic horticultural species in his designs. Garden historian Jill Sinclair traces the history of one of them.

PhD scholar Francesca Murray shares with us her research into Marnock as a philanthropic gardener.

Marnock researcher Kay Keeton has alerted us to a Canadian garden that is a copy of a lost Marnock design.

Local historian Alison McCall has trawled through old records to piece together Robert’s childhood, and taken photographs for us of the various locations associated with his family.

Students Hannah Baber and Robert Curtis, both at the University of Sheffield, have been researching the history of plants that Marnock used in Sheffield Botanical Gardens.

Find out about the nursery that Marnock ran in east London for several years.

Marnock researcher Kay Keeton has investigated a rose named after Marnock that featured in the gardening press from the 1870s.

The Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust has taken the opportunity of the Marnock celebrations to investigate three designs credited to him in the south of the county.

Read some of Marnock’s design principles and, thanks to researcher Marion Shawcross, learn about Mungo Temple, the fellow gardener who had them published as ‘Marnock’s Maxims.’

Over the last twenty-five years, at least seven of Marnock’s designs have been saved from decline with support from the Heritage Fund.

Alison Hunter, historian at Sheffield Botanical Gardens, shares information about Marnock’s early publishing career.

Marnock expert Dr Jan Woudstra explains some of the distinguishing features of his style.

Learn from botanical artist and tutor Jennie Hinton about the women who contributed to science through botanical art.

Here you can read the original text from Robert Marnock 1837 Floricultural Magazine where he discusses the differences between a ‘Botanical’ garden and a ‘Floricultural’ one - which do you think Sheffield Botanical Gardens is?