UK: Garden People by Valerie Finnis
It was Finnis’s love for plants that helped her recover from her grief. David’s only child, Merlin, a gifted naturalist, was killed in the second world war at 22.
Fashion Sphinx
2015
Excerpt:
Valerie Finnis, who has died aged 81, was one of the great ladies of gardening, renowned as a plantswoman and flower photographer, and as a unique character in her world. She knew everyone in it and revelled in its gossip, dramas, and talk littered with titles – she had one herself, by marriage but always used her maiden name.
Plants were her first passion. An early memory was of a garden with drifts of gentians she saw when she was three. In 1975 the Royal Horticultural Society awarded her its greatest distinction, the Victoria Medal of Honour, for her many-faceted contribution to horticulture. “For me it used to be plants before people,” she told me when we met. But after her marriage to Sir David Scott when she was 46, she said, she came to see that “it’s really only people that matter”. Her life was crammed with contacts, which she used tirelessly to make a difference to many other lives.
To boost her income to support her invalid father, Finnis developed more accomplishments: as a lecturer and broadcaster, a member of several Royal Horticultural Society committees, and one of the first women photographers of plants. With an old Rolleiflex, the gift of Wilhelm Schacht, curator of Munich’s botanic garden, she built up a library of 50,000 transparencies of plant portraits, and some of such gardeners as Margery Fish, David Shackleton and Vita Sackville-West.
When Howard Sooley went to photograph Finnis some years ago, she took as many pictures of him as he of her, and a friendship began. When Sooley saw this remarkable archive, sadly encased in cardboard boxes, he determined it should be published
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