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.
|
|
 |
Roman architect and man of many interests who designed Villa
d'Este and garden at Tivoli and the Ovation fountain, for Cardinal
d'Este, between 1550 and the 1580s.
|
|
|
  The
Swedish Professor of Medicine and Botany, who in his definitive
works Genera Plantarum and Species Plantarum,
classified each plant by using two words in Latin form, instead of
adopting the descriptive phrases that had been in common use among
the botanists and herbalists of his day. His garden at Uppsala is
a living monument to his work.
|
|
|
 Born
in the house at his wonderful garden,
Great Dixter, in
Northiam, East Sussex, England, Lloyd studied horticulture at
Wye College, University of London. He has been a famous
gardener, writer and lecturer around the world. Lloyd was
awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour by the Royal Horticultural
Society in 1979.
His books include:
The
Mixed Border (1957)
Shrubs and Trees for Small Gardens (1965)
Clematis (1965, revised 1989)
Hardy Perennials (1967)
Gardening on Chalk and Lime (1969)
The Well-Tempered Garden (1970, revised 1985)
Foliage Plants (1973, revised 1985)
The Adventurous Gardener (1983)
The Well-Chosen Garden (1984)
The Year at Great Dixter (1987) |
Cottage
Garden (1990)
Garden Flowers from Seed (1992)
Christopher Lloyd’s Flower Garden (1993)
In my Garden (1993)
Planting Your Garden (1993)
Other People’s Gardens (1995)
Gardener Cook (1997)
Dear Friend and Gardener (1998)
Christopher Lloyd’s Garden Year (1999)
Christopher Lloyd’s Garden Flowers (2000) |
|
|
|
A pupil of John Rose and for a time, gardener to Henry Compton,
Bishop of London, at Fulham Palace. He visited Versailles when he
was in the service of the Earl of Portland and in collaboration
with Henry Wise, laid out formal gardens at many English estates.
In James II's reign he and Moses Cook (gardener to the Earl of
Essex), Lucre (gardener to the Queen Dowager at Somerset House),
and Field (gardener to the Earl of Bedford), joined in founding
the celebrated Brompton Nurseries. He is associated with the
design of
Petworth,
Blenheim Palace, Chatsworth, Studley Royal (Yorkshire) and
Newby Hall (Yorkshire).
|
|
|
 Journalist and
"encyclopedist", he made the first complete record
of hardy trees then known and their implications for horticulture
in 1822 in his astonishing Arboretum et Fructicetum Britannicum,
shortened in 1842 to 1,200 pages as Trees and
Shrubs of Great
Britain. He is said to have coined the expression 'gardenesque
style'.
|
|
|
 English
architect both of country houses and public buildings; designed
the Cenotaph, Whitehall; the city plan and viceroy's house in New
Delhi, the British Embassy at Washington and Liverpool Roman
Catholic cathedral. Associated with the design of
Great Dixter garden
with Gertrude Jekyll. Designed
the house and garden at
Bois des
Moutiers near Dieppe, the gardens at Hestercombe in Somerset,
Castle Drogo in Devon, Knebworth House in Hertfordshire and many
other houses and gardens.
|
|
 |
|
|
|
