While only two centuries old, Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire, England was a horticultural wonder of its time, benefiting from the exciting possibility of global plant exploration in the mid-19th century. James Bateman, on whose family property the grounds were developed, belonged to a coterie of men, and women, who shared interests in botany, zoology, horticulture, geology, and plant science: Nathaniel Ward, designer of the Wardian case, a large wood and glass “terrarium” that made it p...
