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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 The
most celebrated gardener of the seventeenth century, was an
architectural genius. His influence was supreme in every country
in Europe, and he was chiefly responsible for the abolition of the
Gothic types of pleasances, replacing them by vast gardens with
impressive avenues, canals, etc. André Le Nôtre was a man of very
humble birth, for his father, Jean Le Nôtre was an under-gardener
at the Tuileries. His father ultimately became head gardener, and
his son worked under him. Le Nôtre did not achieve fame until
quite late in life.
Chatsworth and Wrest in England are after his style.
The French formal style is attributed to
André Le Nôtre. Known for his very formal and
geometrical gardens, Le Nôtre is perhaps best known for his
gardens at the
Palace of Versailles. This, and all his other landscapes on
the very large scale, has a strong central axis, framed vistas,
and formal parterres (gardens on various levels). He had the
greatest influence of anyone on European landscape design during
the 17th and 18th centuries, and has been
referred to as "the most copied and celebrated landscape designer
in western history."
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Nesfield was a 19th century artist and garden designer
who was associated with rose
gardens at Kew Gardens,
Inverary Castle (Argyll), Balcaskie (Fife), Castle Howard
(Yorkshire), Whitley Court (Worcestershire) and the yew hedge maze
at Somerleyton Hall (Suffolk).
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Harold George Nicolson was a British diplomat and author of more
than 125 books, including political essays, travel accounts and
mystery novels. In 1913 he married the poet and novelist
Vita
Sackville-West and together they purchased and developed
Sissinghurst, one of the world's great gardens, in Kent, England.
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French ambassador to
Portugal whose name was used for the genus, Nicotiana
(tobacco).
