IVOR BARTON’S DIARIES
Colchicum autumnale in Ivor Barton’s alpine meadow in September 1973
The life of the gardener, traveller and diarist who planted ‘The Cleavage’ 102
T
he Alpine Garden Society’s past presidents form a select but surprisingly diverse group. They include a brace of RHS treasurers, an overseas general manager of a multinational company whose son is one of England’s best-known modern-day painters, Lord Mountbatten’s physician, the wife of a former Governor-General of Canada, a railway executive and a retired wing commander. Our current president, David Haselgrove, was in his working life the managing partner of a law firm and is one of several solicitors who have held the office. One other was Ivor Barton, a resourceful and obdurate Yorkshireman who served from 1974-76, by which time he was semi-retired. THE ALPINE GARDENER
