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This is a list of people noted for their contribution to gardening , either by working as
gardeners or
garden designers , or by commissioning famous
gardens .
It does not include the innumerable people who count
gardening among their hobbies.
Notable gardeners
The list follows gardeners or garden designers by occupation. It includes
garden designers and
landscape gardeners involved chiefly in garden design, and expert writers or broadcasters on the subject.
John Abercrombie (1726–1806), Scottish horticulturalist and garden writer
Ralph Austen (c. 1612–1676), English gardener and writer on gardening
Chris Baines (born 1947), English horticulturalist and naturalist
Luis Barragán (1902–1988), Mexican planner of public gardens
William Barron (1805–1891), British landscape gardener and park designer
Peter Beales (1936–2013), English rose grower
Chris Beardshaw (born 1969), English garden designer, writer and broadcaster
Beatrice Bligh (1916–1973), Australian gardener
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Knut Adolf Bovin (1853–1926), Swedish gardener, landscape architect, landscape gardener, publicist and writer on gardening
Edward Augustus Bowles (1865–1954), English horticulturalist, plantsman and writer
Lancelot "Capability" Brown (1716–1783), English landscape architect
Toby Buckland (born 1969), English gardener, broadcaster and writer
Stefan Buczacki (born 1945), English horticulturalist, botanist and broadcaster
Edward Ashdown Bunyard (1878–1939), English apple breeder and market gardener
Susan Campbell (1931–2024), English writer on kitchen gardens
Percival Stephen Cane (1881–1976), English garden designer and writer
George Frederick Carden (1798–1874), English developer of the garden
cemetery movement and founder of
Kensal Green Cemetery
Alan Chadwick (1909–1980), English master gardener and organic farmer
Beth Chatto (1926–2018), English creator of gardens at
Elmstead Market showing gardening under extreme conditions
Harold Basil Christian (1871–1950), South African/
Rhodesian farmer, botanist and gardener
Thomas Church (1902–1978), American landscape architect and pioneer of
Modernist garden design
Carolus Clusius (1526–1609), Flemish botanist and scientific horticulturist
Marian Cruger Coffin (1876–1957), American landscape architect and garden designer
Nigel Colborn (living), garden broadcaster
Brenda Colvin (1897–1981), landscape architect and garden designer
Herbert Cowley (1885–1967), botanist and garden writer
Rachel De Thame (born 1961), English gardener and broadcaster
Esther Deans, Australian pioneer of "
no-dig gardening "
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886), American botanist and gardener
Charlie Dimmock (born 1966), English gardener and broadcaster
Harry Dodson (1919–2005), English kitchen gardener
David Domoney (born 1963), English garden broadcaster and horticulturist
George Don (1798–1856), Scottish botanist
Monty Don (born 1955), English garden broadcaster
Andrew Jackson Downing (1815–1852), American landscape designer
Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1822–1916), English plantsman and garden writer
Helena Rutherfurd Ely (1858–1920), American gardening author
John Evelyn (1620–1706), English diarist, scholar and gardener
Reginald Farrer (1880–1920), English plant collector and garden writer
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall (born 1939), English garden designer and landscape architect
Xenia Field (1894–1998), English garden writer
Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), Scottish artist and gardener
Margery Fish (1892–1969), English cottage gardener and garden writer
Bob Flowerdew (living), English organic gardener and broadcaster
Alys Fowler (living), English gardener and broadcaster
Robin Lane Fox (born 1946), English garden writer
Robert Gathorne-Hardy (1902–1973), English garden writer
Roy Genders (1913–1985), English garden writer
Samuel Gilbert (died
c. 1692 ), English writer on floriculture
William Sawrey Gilpin (1761/1762–1843), English landscape designer
Pippa Greenwood (living), English plant pathologist and broadcaster
C. Z. Guest (1920–2003), New York Post gardening columnist
Geoff Hamilton (1936–1996), English gardener, broadcaster and writer
Ralph Hancock (1893–1950), Welsh landscape gardener and writer
Joseph Harrison (1798–1856), English horticulturalist
Robert Hart (1913–2000), English forest gardener
Roy Hay (1910–1989), English horticulturalist and garden writer and broadcaster
D. G. Hessayon (born 1928), English garden writer
Shirley Hibberd (1825–1890), English garden writer
Thomas Hill (born
c. 1528 ), English garden writer
Robert Hogg (1818–1897), Scottish nurseryman and botanist
Percy Izzard (1877–1968), English garden writer
Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), English garden designer
Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900–1996), English landscape architect and garden designer
Susan Jellicoe (1907–1986), English plantswoman and garden writer
George William Johnson (1802–1886), English garden writer
William Kent (c. 1685–1748), English landscape architect
Louisa Boyd Yeomans King (1863–1948), American gardener and author
Antony King-Deacon (1941–2005), English gardening writer
Noel Kingsbury (living), English garden designer and writer
Carol Klein (born 1945), English gardener, writer and broadcaster
Roy Lancaster (born 1937), English plantsman and writer
Batty Langley (1696–1751), English garden designer and writer
André Le Nôtre (1613–1700), French landscape architect
Peter Joseph Lenné (1789–1866), Prussian landscape architect
Arabella Lennox-Boyd (born 1938), Italian-born English garden designer
Roddy Llewellyn (born 1947), English gardener and author
Christopher Lloyd (1921–2006), English gardener and garden writer
Claire Loewenfeld (1899–1974), German-born English herbalist
Tony Lord (living), English gardener and garden writer
Jane C. Loudon (1807–1858), English garden writer
Mary McMurtrie (1902–2003), Scottish botanical artist and horticulturalist
Patrick Neill (1776–1851), Scottish naturalist and horticulturalist
Beverley Nichols (1898–1983), English author of gardening and other books
J. C. U. Niedermann (1810–after 1865), American professional gardener in Wisconsin
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), American designer and father of American landscape architecture
Mirabel Osler (1925–2016), English garden designer and writer
Piet Oudolf (born 1944)
Dutch garden designer, nurseryman and writer
Russell Page (1906–1985), English landscape architect
Anna Pavord (born 1940), English gardening writer
Eleanor Perenyi (1918–2009), American gardener and author
Frances Perry (1907–1993), English gardener, writer and broadcaster
Sarah Raven (born 1963), English gardener and broadcaster
John Rea (died 1681), English nursery gardener and writer
Humphrey Repton (1752–1818), English landscape designer
William Robinson (1838–1935), Irish gardener/journalist prompting
English cottage garden movement
Katie Rushworth (born 1983), English gardening designer and broadcaster
Anne Scott-James (1913–2009), English gardening writer
Peter Seabrook (1935–2022), English garden writer and broadcaster
Gay Search (living), English gardening broadcaster and writer
Philip Morton Shand (1888–1960), English pomologist
W. E. Shewell-Cooper (1900–1982), English no-dig, organic gardener
George Sinclair (1787–1834), Scottish gardener
Geoffrey Smith (1928–2009), English gardener and broadcaster
Mary Spiller (1924–2019), English horticulturalist
Fletcher Steele (1885–1971), American landscape architect and garden designer
Andy Sturgeon (born 1965/1966), English garden designer and writer
Joe Swift (born 1965), English garden designer and journalist
Anne Swithinbank (born 1957), English horticulturalist and broadcaster
Stephen Switzer (1682–1745), English garden designer and exponent of landscape gardening
Patrick Synge (1910–1982), English botanist and plant hunter
Colah B. Tawkin , American podcaster and gardener
Christopher Thacker (1931–2018), English garden historian
Theophrastus (c. 371–c. 287 BCE), Greek author of Enquiry into Plants and On the Causes of Plants
Graham Stuart Thomas (1909–2003), English botanist and rose gardener
Percy Thrower (1913–1988), English gardener and broadcaster
Alan Titchmarsh (born 1949), English gardener and broadcaster
John Tradescant the Elder (1570s–1638), English naturalist and gardener
John Tradescant the younger (1608–1662), English botanist and gardener
Inigo Triggs (1876–1923), English formal garden designer
Roger Turner (living), English garden designer
Rosemary Verey (1918–2001), English garden designer and writer
Edna Walling (1896–1973), Australian garden designer, writer and photographer
Rosamund Marriott Watson (1860–1911) English garden writer, The Heart of a Garden
Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American novelist and landscape architect
Thomas Whately (1726–1822), English landscape gardening writer
Albert Wilson (1903–1996), American botanist, landscape architect, author and broadcaster
Andrew Wilson (living), English garden designer
Matthew Wilson (living), English garden designer and writer
Frances Garnet Wolseley, 2nd Viscountess Wolseley (1872–1936), English garden writer and instructor
Gabrielle van Zuylen (1933–2010), French gardener and garden writer
People commissioning notable gardens
Other people whose primary profession was not gardening have made notable contributions to horticulture by planning or commissioning significant gardens.
Michael Heseltine , 20th-century English politician, noted
arboriculturist
Thomas Jefferson , 19th-century American president, recognized for planning the grounds of the
University of Virginia
Lucullus , 1st-century BC Roman general, noted for laying out the
Gardens of Lucullus
Nebuchadnezzar II , 6th-century
neo-Babylonian king, credited with founding the
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Vita Sackville-West , English author, gardening columnist, creator of
Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent
William Shenstone , 18th-century English practitioner of landscape gardening through development of his estate
Solomon , Biblical king recorded as creating gardens, possibly near
Etam
Fictional gardeners
Agent 47 , became a gardener in Sicily after he temporarily retired from being a
hitman in
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Pat , the White Rabbit's gardener in
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Mr. McGregor , the elderly gardener in three children's books by
Beatrix Potter :
The Tale of Peter Rabbit ,
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny , and
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies .
Boothby , recurring character in Star Trek , groundskeeper of Starfleet Academy
Chance the Gardener in the film
Being There , a simple American whose name is misheard as "Chauncey Gardiner" and accidentally becomes a Presidential advisor and candidate
Samwise Gamgee in
The Lord of the Rings , a hobbit, the servant and companion of
Frodo Baggins , the Ring-bearer
Tom and Barbara Good in 1975 TV series
The Good Life , a middle-class English couple who try to become
self-sufficient on the produce of their garden in
Surbiton
Haru in the manga and anime "
Beastars ", a female rabbit who was the leader and only member of the gardening club at
Cherryton Academy , and currently pursuing
botany at
University
Souseiseki and
Suiseiseki in the manga and anime
Rozen Maiden , referred to as gardeners for their ability to tend not only plants but also the "soul trees" of humans
The Chief Gardener of the Imperial Palace Grounds was a key figure on
Trantor , the galactic capitol in
Isaac Asimov 's
Foundation series – a high functionary with a palatial office in the enormous Imperial complex and "an army of men and women under him"
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There are multiple gardeners, botanists and herbologists in the Harry Potter series:
Pomona Sprout and Herbert Beery,
Herbology teachers
Frank Bryce , the
Riddles' gardener
Miranda Goshawk (in the film version) and Phyllida Spore, two authors
Elladora Ketteridge and Beaumont Majoribanks, discovered gillyweed, a fictional plant
Hadrian Whittle, named after a real-life garden designer
Rubeus Hagrid , gameskeeper, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts
See also
References