Correspondence to and from botanists, plant experts and plant enthusiasts whose name or organisation's name begins with B. Includes correspondence with Andrew Brookes, Butterfly Conservation, Hampshire, 2005-2006, Ian Butterfield, Butterfields Nursery, Buckinghamshire, 1981-1982, Graham Burgess at Longstock Park Gardens, Hampshire, 1975-1980, Dr Jeffrey Bryce of Swansea, 2005-2008, Christopher Brickell, former Director General of the RHS, 2008-2014, and Roy Lancaster's tribute to him at the Garden Media Guild Awards, Nov 2014, Alan Bremner of Orkney, Scotland, 1981, Elizabeth and Mark Braimbridge of Langley Boxwood Nursery, Hampshire, 1984-1997, Philip Brown at Portmeirion and Anglesey, Wales, 1984-2009, Alice Boyd of Ince Castle, Cornwall, 2007-2012, Charles, Marquess of Landsdowne of Bowood, 2003-2006, John Bond, Crown Estate Office, Windsor Great Park, 1975-1986, R.J. Bloomfield, Eric Gorton and Mary Lewis, Natural History Department, Museum and Art Gallery, Bolton Metropolitan Borough, 1973-1976, Alan Bloom and Adrian Bloom of Blooms Nurseries, Bressingham, Norfolk, 1979-2016, Suzette and Robert Vernon, BlueBell Arboretum and Nursery, Leicestershire, 2006-2011, Marjorie Blamey of Looe, Cornwall, 1972, Robin White of Blackthorn Nursery, Hampshire, 1991-2011, Simon Gulliver of Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses, 2010, Billy Carruthers, Binny Estate, West Lothian, Scotland, 2002-2004, Matthew Biggs, freelance writer and broadcaster, 2009-2015, including relating to the 19th-century plant collectors William Lobb and Thomas Lobb, Gus Bellchambers of Slugwash Gardens, Sussex, 1974-1978, Len Beer, School of Plant Biology, University College of North Wales, Bangor, and Department of Botany, University of Durham, 1973-1976, and his widow Sheila Beer, 1977-1984, Alan Bidwell and Kevin Marsh at Beeches Nursery, Essex, undated, Kenneth Beckett, writer and photographer of Kings Lynn, Norfolk, 1975-2012, Gloria Barretto of Hong Kong, 2004-2006, and her son Ruy Barretto, 2007-2013, Richard Banks of Hergest Croft Gardens, Herefordshire, 1981-1990, and Lawrence Banks of Hergest Croft, 1974-2014
Includes a monograph entitled 'A Kind Man; In praise of Chris Brickell' by Charles Quest-Ritson, heavily annotated, undated, list of plants established in the gardens at Portmeirion, 1994, trail guide to 'The Bungalow Grounds', Rivington Terraced Gardens, Bolton, undated [?late 1970s], copy of a draft text for a new 'Guide to Bowood's Trees' by Dr Owen Johnson and Roy Lancaster's preface to the earlier edition, with covering letter to Lord Landsdowne, Jan 2006
These papers were originally housed in a single folder which was repackaged into two folders