Peter Dunhill's talk, "The Commoner's Garden" concerns the evolution of domestic gardening from the middle ages to the present and includes sections on

• the significance of gardeners' competitions
• the sociological impact of industrialisation and movement into the cities
• the popularity of certain flowers and vegetables
• detached gardens (especially in Shrewsbury and Warwick)
• tools including lawn mowers
• gardening publications and TV/radio programmes
• the lives of ordinary people who worked in ‘posh’ gardens