Warner's Path

This is Warner’s Path, which we often walk along. It is named after Richard Warner, who in the 18th century lived in Harts, an estate to the left of the path in this picture, where he maintained a botanical garden and cultivated exotic plants. 

One day he was sent a so-called Cape Jasmine plant from the Cape of Good Hope, which flowered in his hothouse. It was proposed by fellow botanists that the plant should be called Warneria, but Richard Warner declined having the plant named after him and it was subsequently named in honour of Scottish naturalist Alexander Garden – and thus we now know it as a Gardenia.