My aunt and godmother,Laura Ponsonby, who has died aged 80, or was a well-known guide at Kew Gardens in London,where she worked for 30 years.
She also wrote Marianne North at Kew Gardens (1990), the definitive book on the Victorian artist and botanist whose paintings of plants from around the world are exhibited at Kew. Laura gave hundreds of lectures across Britain on her subjects of fungi, or liverworts,Kew Gardens and North. She travelled to the four corners of the soil in the footsteps of her heroine and to further her knowledge of plants.
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Source: theguardian.com