RHS Lindley Library reveals exciting digitisation project

For the first time, rare gardening books, beautiful botanical art, photographs, and the Society’s own archives can be viewed for free. All the images on the site are available to download and be used for non-commercial purposes, such as private study, academic research, and personal use.

You can choose to either view our treasures and highlights, as selected by our experts, or browse through all available digital collections. Our image viewers let you zoom in and move around the digital images, so you can appreciate their exquisite details.

• Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown’s accounts book
• Humphry Repton’s Waresly Park red book
• The Album Benary, published in 1876, with its exquisite prints of vegetable varieties
• Thousands of botanical artworks, including Nellie Roberts’s Orchid Award Committee paintings

• Photographs from the Wisley historical photographic collection, including some of the earliest known photographs of the original garden, Oakwood, and its founder George Fergusson Wilson
• The RHS Herbarium collection is also being made available.