 With his accumulated wealth Holbrook Gaskell moved to Woolton Woods in Much Woolton.He became a renowned collector of orchids.Frederick Sander, an orchid dealer, received a new Cattleya species in 1883 from his collector Seidl and named it "Cattleya gaskelliana" after Holbrook Gaskell in recognition of a good customer and someone who "by great diligence has acquired one of the finest collections of orchids in the North of England".