Famous women in gardening & garden design
Biographies of famous female garden designers in garden history from the UK’s leading garden designer directory. Read about famous women in garden design and influential female garden writers in our garden designer Biographies. Learn about women in garden design history, garden design materials and gardens to visit for inspiration.
Gertrude Jekyll 1843-1932
Famous Women in Garden Design
Gertrude Jekyll is well known for her extensive design work, alone and in partnership with Sir Edwin Lutyens, the architect. Read more »
Dame Sylvia Crowe 1901-97
Famous British Garden Designers
Sylvia Crowe was a British Landscape Architect of real influence. Her 1958 book entitled 'Garden Design' is still one of the best and most comprehensive books on the subject. Read more »
Margery Fish 1888-1969
Famous Women in Cottage Garden Design
Margery Fish was one of the most important influences on English Cottage Gardening. It is mainly due to her enthusiasm and love of plants that the cottage gardening tradition has been kept alive. Read more »
Beth Chatto
Famous British Plantswomen and garden writer
Beth Chatto is a plantswomen and author best known for her Essex gardens which tackle planting design in a range of difficult conditions. She is a firm believer in the 'Right Plant, Right Place' school of planting design. Read more »
Helen Dillon
Famous Garden Design and Plant Writer
Helen Dillon is revered worldwide as one of the most skilled and perceptive gardeners of our time. She is a gardener and garden writer based in Ireland Read more »
Martha Schwartz
Famous USA Landscape Architect
Martha Schwartz is an American Landscape Architect whose experimental work has had a revolutionary influence on the progress of garden design in the 20th Century. Read more »
Vita Sackville-West 1892-1962
Famous British Garden Designers
Vita Sackville-West was the poet and gardening writer who famously helped to design and create the world famous gardens at Sissinghurst. Her weekly columns for The Observer, now published in book form, are a delight.. Read more »
