 The flower picture in the tea-room at Hidcote was painted directly on the wall at Kiftsgate by Major Johnson and moved to Hidcote in 1981 by the National Trust.Kiftsgate first became well known to the gardening public after Graham Stuart Thomas's article in the "Royal Horticultural Society Journal", May 1951, in which the great plantsman observed, "I regard this as the finest piece of skilled colour work that it has been my pleasure to see.