On this date in 1892, #LucyMBoston was born.

Thank you, Lucy

The artist #ElisabethVellacott was a good friend of #LucyMBoston? She helped Lucy with the wartime concerts for the RAF, and they block-printed curtains for the Manor windows together. Later, Lucy's son Peter designed a house for Elisabeth nearby (painting by E Vellacott) www.greenknowe.co.uk

#LucyMBoston is featured in the mural on Literary Walk in nearby Huntingdon

Love, sex and death: Our near-universal obsession with the rose No flower is more entwined with myth, religion, politics and the human form than the humble rose — and now there's a new coffee table book celebrating them in all of their glory.

#LucyMBoston planted her rose garden with old varieties with incredible scents

#OldRoses

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Greenknowe Lucy Boston Open Gardens Hemingford Grey Cambridge The Manor is a house in the village of Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire. It was built in the 1130s. Much of the original house remains intact.

Indeed. It's 'An Enemy at #GreenKnowe' which is surprisingly dark. In fact, #LucyMBoston wrote the Green Knowe books for adults, but as she wanted illustrations included, the publishers would only market them as children's books. Fortunately, children love them and so do adults :)

#LucyMBoston designed and stitched exquisite #Patchworks her at The Manor/ #GreenKnowe. Lucy's daughter-in-law was this year honoured by the Historic Houses Association and Dreweatts for her custodianship of this important textiles collection www.greenknowe.co.uk/patchworks/ Photos: Julia Hedgecoe

A small Puffin paperback book with an image of an old house with two ghostly figures emerging from ice on front of it: "The Children of Green Knowe" by Lucy M. Boston.

New read: something I don't think I've ever read before, but still associate with Christmas thanks to the BBC tv version. #newread #childrenofgreenknowe #lucymboston

On this day in 1892, #LucyMBoston was born.

Thank you, Lucy.

#GreenKnowe #Patchworks #OldRoses #Irises #Topiary

An anniversary edition of The Children of Green Knowe By Lucy M. Boston. It is a small green hard back book with an illustration of Tolly seeing the house for the first time. The book is 70 years old this year.

Absolutely thrilled that my to 70th Birthday edition of Green Knowe is here, It’s beautiful! #Greenknowe #TheManor #LucyMBoston #Books