Female Garden Designers

Jane mccorkell one of ireland s leading garden designers and recipient of numerous medals.

Female garden designers. Jane mccorkell awards winning landscape and garden designer. Kristina taylor s new book women garden designers. At charlotte rowe garden design we offer a full garden design service for clients whether it is small town garden or a larger landscape.

Since the studio was established in london in 2004 charlotte rowe garden design has designed over 250 landscape and garden design projects for clients in the uk and overseas. Great garden designers by sarah topp. The extraordinary thing is that in an industry dominated at grassroots level by women the society of garden designers the industry s representative body has 1 041 members of whom 70 are.

This is a list of people noted for their contribution to gardening either by working as gardeners or garden designers by occupation or by commissioning famous gardens. It does not include the innumerable people who count gardening among their hobbies. His romantic gardens nestle around historic houses creating a timeless feel with structural designs pleached trees and strong shaped topiary mixed with soft planting of lavender and roses.

Designer tricia guild recently described arne maynard as one of the finest garden designers working today. Women have long been owners and creators of some of our most famous gardens but until the early 20th century it was virtually impossible for any woman regardless of her social background to enter the world of professional horticulture and garden design. 29 november 1843 8 december 1932 was a british horticulturist garden designer craftswoman photographer writer and artist.

She created over 400 gardens in the united kingdom europe and the united states and wrote over 1 000 articles for magazines such as country life and william robinson s the garden. When you visit the many beautiful formal gardens we have in britain you will realise that there has been the hand of a great designer at work. 1900 to the present garden art press 70 catalogues their outstanding creations from gertrude jekyll s lush formal garden at upton grey.

With some of the great landscape gardens you may not realise this as they have been designed to enhance the surrounding landscape. Gertrude jekyll vmh ˈ dʒ iː k əl jee kəl. There are many incredible women who have and are still dominating the world of gardening so for international women s day we ve listed some of the key female garden designers in british history that still influence the way we garden today alongside some of the top women garden designers who are currently succeeding in the industry.