HH THOMAS, PRESIDENT OF KEW GARDENS

My paternal grandfather was called Harry Higgot Thomas. Until  recently, I thought he had been a prolific author of gardening books and the editor of the Daily Telegraph gardening section. A chance search on Google, yielded the following rather groovy tribute on his retirement as President of Kew Gardens. Any man who held that job and wrote books called Making Love to Mother Earth is a top man. Thank goodness, he had the good sense not continue working in a bank…