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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Dr. James
Chester Raulston was the founder, director and namesake of
the Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, North Carolina. He traveled
around the world with plant collecting trips to Europe and
Korea and was credited with introducing
many new species and cultivars of plants into the trade.
He
received the prized Thomas Roland Medal, given by the
Massachusetts Horticulture Society. He received dozens of honors
for his work, including the Outstanding Public Garden Program
Award from the American Association of Botanic Gardens and
Arboreta in 1992. Raulston was the author, with Kim E. Tripp, of
''The Year in Trees: Superb Woody Plants for Four-Season
Gardens,'' published in 1995 by Timber Press.
He was killed in a car accident in December,
1996.
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 He succeeded 'Capability' Brown as head gardener at
Hampton Court,
was the first to assume the title of landscape gardener. His
Red Books are valuable evidence of the types of gardens he
destroyed, and the 'landscapes' created in their places. Author of
Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening
(1803).
His designs were used at Antony House, Bowood, Clumber Park,
Hatchlands, Plas Newydd, Sheffield Park, Sheringham Park
(Norfolk), Tatton Park and Wimpole Hall.
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French royal gardener
for whom the genus, Robinia (Locust trees), is named.
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 William Robinson's The English Flower Garden of 1883 was
reprinted almost annually for over 25 years, while a whole
generation of gardeners imbibed his outspoken rejection of
Victorian fussiness and formality. Earlier (1870) he published
Alpine Flowers for Gardens and The Wild Garden.
Born in
Ireland, he was the leader of the new landscape school of
gardening. They turned parks into gardens and taught the nation to
appreciate hardy plants and herbaceous borders at their true
value.
His designs were used at Emmetts, his own home Gravetye Manor
(West Sussex), Killerton House and Nymans Gardens. There is a so-called "Robinsonian"
garden at the
Mt Usher Gardens in Ireland.
The plant Anemone nemorosa
'Robinsoniana' is named for him.
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- Robinson, William (1839-1914)
Irish gardener, landscape designer and
plantsman. The specific epithet, robinsonianus, was
named for him. Plants with this name include
Calamus robinsonianus,
and
Senecio robinsonianus.
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 Born in Vienna, Joseph Rock collected for the Arnold Arboretum, which he described as 'a garden of Eden' with an
enormous variety of plants. Most of his activity in plant
collection came in southeast Asia. A mountain ash bears his
name.
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 American
naval officer after whom the genus, Rodgersia, was
named.
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 An American garden designer whose designs were used at the
formal gardens at the RHS garden at
Wisley, Claverton Manor,
Fairfield House, and the herb garden at Scotney Castle in Kent.
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Irish astronomer whose
name was lent to the genus, Romneya. Also known
as the Matilija poppy,it is a tall (6 to 8 feet), majestic
plant. Its large white crepe-paper-like flowers have large
yellow centers.
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John Rose studied under Le Nôtre.
In 1666, he succeeded André Mollet as head of the royal gardens at
St James Park in London.
John Rose's name is chiefly associated with viticulture with his
book, The English Vineyard Vindicated,
being a standard work. Rose's name is also associated with
pineapples, for he grew and presented to the king the first
pineapple raised in England.
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 Professor of
medicine at Uppsala University and avid botanist, Rudbeckius
taught reknowned taxonomist,
Carl Linnaeus
who honored him by naming the genus, Rudbeckia (Black
Eyed Susan), for him.
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British plant hybridizer from the Yorkshire
region who is known for developing lupines with larger, colorful
flower spikes.
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