Looking back: Gardens

Middle aged man gardening. Photograph: Getty Images

5 May 1821: Rooks attend the birth of the Guardian - the very first edition of the paper features a piece about a colony of rooks in a Manchester garden.

1 January 1873: Window gardening for the poor - plain instructions on how to grow hyacinths.

10 February 1913: Suffragettes suspected of vandalising Kew Gardens.

The Temperate House in Kew Gardens. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian

21 October 1915: Mystery and beauty in the smoke of garden bonfires.

9 December 1915: Exquisite variety of shades in a winter garden.

Garden shed on an allotment plot. Photograph: Elly Godfroy/Alamy

24 December 1932: The garden shed - methods of construction.

29 September 1946: Vita Sackville-West begins her In Your Garden column in the Observer. It runs until 1961.

22 January 1950: Vita Sackville-West on her grey, green and white garden.

Vita Sackville-West, circa 1940. Photograph: Lenare/Getty Images

11 February 1951: Tips for a small front garden.

5 August 1951: Britain blooms again with the return of the village flower show.

26 May 1964: Pride and snobbery at Chelsea Show.

The Art of Yorkshire garden on display,Chelsea Flower Show May 2011. Photograph: Sang Tan/AP

5 August 1966: A Kew Gardens in the Sussex countryside.

4 February 1999: Doctor Who? David Hessayon, the expert at the garden centre.

21 May 2013: Chelsea flower show at 100: A century of (newspaper) cuttings.

Urban Gardens, a suburban street in Telford. Photograph: Don McPhee for the Guardian