A Warm Welcome
Dr Toby Musgrave has a passion for garden design and garden history which began at a very early age and shows no signs of abating. An independent scholar since 1994 Toby is an international authority on garden history and design.
He shares his passion and knowledge as an author - 10 books and counting, a lecturer - in the classroom at DIS, online with Learning with Experts, aboard Expedition cruise ships and with Botanica, on television and radio, and on his blog - Garden History Matters.
As a garden designer Toby has created gardens in the UK, the USA, India and in Denmark. Here he lives and gardens, finding the gardening climate ‘challenging’.
He shares his passion and knowledge as an author - 10 books and counting, a lecturer - in the classroom at DIS, online with Learning with Experts, aboard Expedition cruise ships and with Botanica, on television and radio, and on his blog - Garden History Matters.
As a garden designer Toby has created gardens in the UK, the USA, India and in Denmark. Here he lives and gardens, finding the gardening climate ‘challenging’.
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In the NewsMy latest book - The Multifarious Mr Banks - is hot off the press. Published by Yale University Press it is a biography of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), one of the most important and influential yet overlooked figures of the British Enlightenment. As the on-board natural historian, Banks accompanied James Cook on his first circumnavigation (1768-'71), a formative experience that led Banks to become the 'Father of Australia'. Upon his return Banks established the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on a scientific footing, was elected President of the Royal Society (holding the Chair for an unequaled 42 years) and co-founded a number of societies including what is today the Royal Horticultural Society. He was pivotal in organising plant hunting expeditions and economic plant transfers (including breadfruit from Tahiti to the West Indies that culminated in the Mutiny on the Bounty), arranging scientific voyages of discovery (including Flinders and Scorseby) and advancing the sciences of natural history, in particular botany. Without doubt Banks changed the world and was instrumental in laying the foundations for and shaping the development of what would become the British Commonwealth.
Signed copies are available upon request.
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