
Comments
from Mr. PGC: Throughout
history, many people have made lasting contributions to the
world of plants. In these pages, we hope to pay tribute to
some of them. Our concentration will be primarily on those
who have introduced plants to the gardening world, those who
have helped spread the word about gardening and those who
have made significant contributions to landscaping and
landscaping design around the world.
This list will be constantly growing as we add
new names. If you have someone who you think should be on
the list, please send us an
Email.
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In addition to the many hats he wore as architect, statesman,
politician, and president, he was also an agriculturist,
horticulturist, and landscape designer. After designing several
estates for friends, he eventually designed his own.
In
his designs, Jefferson fused the elements of neo-classicism, such
as terraces and symmetrically curved paths, with elements he
learned about from his tours of English landscapes--the natural
vistas combined with informal shrub and flowers beds. A visit to
his Monticello
estate in Virginia reveals these elements of his style of
landscaping.
Throughout, and to the end of his life, Jefferson was a devoted
gardener and landscaper. He once wrote, "Though an old man, I am
but a young gardener." In 1811 he wrote, "No occupation is so
delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture
comparable to that of the garden."
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Oregon and California - Pinus jeffreyi. He was a loner.
He disappeared in 1852 on a trip from San Diego across the
Colorado Desert and was never seen again.
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 Gertrude
Jekyll's book 'Wood and Garden' (1899) had an enormous
influence on the English (and hence the world's) attitude to
gardens. She saw beauty in natural effects. She collaborated in
garden design with architect Sir
Edwin Lutyens. They first met in 1889 ". . . at a tea table,
the silver kettle and the conversation reflecting rhododendrons, .
. ." as Lutyens described it. She is associated with the garden at
Bois des
Moutiers, near Dieppe, France and Hestercombe in Somerset.
Her planting designs were used at Broughton Castle in Oxfordshire,
Manor House Upton Grey, Lindisfarne Castle in Northumberland,
Hatchlands in Surrey and Knebworth in Hertfordshire.
She is recognized as one of the
greatest influence in the 20th century on herbaceous
gardens. Known for her use of flowers and color in garden designs,
she used them in woodlands, herbaceous borders, and
water gardens.
Planned graduations of color are particularly evident in her
designs.
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Join t author with J.C.Shepherd of the classic Italian
Gardens of the Renaissance. Other books were The Landscape
of Man (1975) and Baroque Gardens of Austria. Sir
Geoffrey's designs were used at Ditchley Park, Sandringham, Sutton
Place in Surrey, Shute House in Dorset, Cliveden (rose garden) in
Buckinghamshire, Cottesbroke Hall in Northamptonshire, Mottisfont
Abbey in Hampshire and the Moody Historical Gardens in Texas. He
created the Kennedy Memorial at Runnymede and the fine canal at
the RHS garden at Wisley.
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Creator of Hidcote Manor
Garden in Gloucestershire and various plant varieties
including Verbena 'Lawrence Johnston' and Hypericum
'Hidcote'.
Major Johnston was born in
Paris of an English mother and American
father. He personally collected many plants from Africa and China
on a plant expedition in 1927. In the early twenties he bought La Serre de la Madonna near Menton in the South of France where he
grew sub-tropical plants not suited to the Cotswolds.
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