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Rose (closed, reference only) Nursery
Listing last updated on Wed Aug 2024
Codsall, Wolverhampton and Boningale Manor Farm,
Albrighton,
Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
United Kingdom
1952. The Rose Annual UKp125. Founded just over 50 years ago, the firm of Bakers Nurseries Ltd...... Wonderful Wolverhampton: "Prior to the 1960s keen gardeners were familiar with Codsall as the home of Baker's Nurseries, where the multi-coloured Russell lupins were first grown in 1935, as was the Bishop delphinium. Indeed, the Baker family who owned the nurseries lived for many years in the house in Church Road that was the birthplace of Sir Charles Wheeler KCVO the well known President of the Royal Academy, 1956-66. Prior to the 1950s a large proportion of the village, male and female, worked at the nurseries, growing the plants, packing the seeds etc. Then the business was transferred to nearby Boningale and ultimately ceased to exist. Mr James Baker the owner, was a director of Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club for many years." Codsall: "Bakers Nurseries, the home of the original "Russell Lupin", started in 1900."
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