None ..., published by Duckworth & Company, 1916 World War, 1914-1918 (47 pp.) "The Holidays" (Children's poem in The Captain, December 1910) Old Herbaceous Old Herbaceous is a classic British novel of the garden, with a title character as outsized and unforgettable as P. G. Wodehouse’s immortal manservant, Jeeves. Born at the dusk of the Victorian era, Bert Pinnegar, an awkward orphan child with one leg a tad longer than the other, rises from inauspicious schoolboy days spent picking wildflowers and dodging angry farmers to become the legendary head gardener "Old Herbaceous," the most esteemed flower-show judge in the county and a famed horticultural wizard capable of producing dazzling April strawberries from the greenhouse and the exact morning glories his Lady spies on the French Riviera, "so blue, so blue it positively hurts." Sprinkled with nuggets of gardening wisdom, Old Herbaceous is a witty comic portrait of the most archetypal—and crotchety—head gardener ever to plant a row of bulbs at a British country house. References External links BBC page on Percy Ponsonby 1881 births 1959 deaths Military personnel from Gloucestershire British garden writers English biographers English humorists English male journalists English non-fiction writers People from Lechlade British Army personnel of World War I British male poets British male dramatists and playwrights English male novelists British comics writers 20th-century English poets 20th-century English novelists 20th-century English dramatists and playwrights 20th-century English male writers King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry soldiers Royal Norfolk Regiment soldiers Male biographers