USA Garden Designers - Biographies
Biographies of famous American garden designers in garden history from the UK’s leading garden designer directory. Read about famous US garden designers and influential garden writers from the USA in our American garden designer Biographies. Learn about USA garden design history, garden design materials and gardens to visit for inspiration.
Dan Hinkley
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Dan Hinkley is an American horticulturalist, garden writer and nurseryman. He is best known for establishing the Heronswood garden, in Washington State and for collecting, propagating, and naming varieties of plants new to the North American nursery trade. Read more »
Martha Schwartz
Famous Landscape ArchitecieAn USA
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 »
Topher Delaney
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Topher Delaney is a Land Artist and Landscape Designer. Her work ranges from intimate residential gardens to 400-acre large scale sites, one-acre large corporate rooftop gardens and public art installations. Read more »
Beatrix Farrand 1872-1959
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Beatrix Farrand was a US Landscape Architect, and the only female founding member of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Her style, a blend of Arts and Crafts traditions and elegant plant choices, can be best seen at the garden she created at Dunbarton Oaks Read more »
Frederick Olmstead 1822-1903
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Frederick Olmstead, hailed by many as the founder of American Landscape Architecture, was famous for his design of urban parks including Central Park in New York. Read more »
James van Sweden
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James van Sweden and Wolfgang Oehme are credited with 'The New American Garden' Style: a style of landscape design that uses large spaces to reflect the year-round beauty of the natural landscape Read more »
Garrett Eckbo 1910-2000
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Garret Eckbo was an American landscape architect notable for his seminal 1950 book 'Landscape for Living'. Read more »
