Influential Garden Designers
Listed in chronological order behold lan s top 10 most influential landscape architects of all time.
Influential garden designers. 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. Considered by many to be the most influential female gardener in history gertrude jekyll was known for. In 1947 brenda published land and landscape an influential work on landscape in the 20th century reflecting her commitment to an ecological approach and to simple planting.
This is the legacy of 10 influential landscape architects who have made their mark on history both physically in their lasting designs and spiritually in their influence on the profession. It does not include the innumerable people who count gardening among their hobbies. Together with his senior partner calvert vaux he designed many of the famous urban parks in america most notably central park and prospect park in new york.
Norah lindsay 1873 1948 norah lindsay was the preeminent society garden designer of the interwar years. Norah lindsay was one of the most influential garden designers of the 1920s and 30s image courtesy of david lindsay family collection. Gone but not forgotten.
While loving her own garden little peacocks brenda famously rejected private garden design as too subject to the whims and fancies of owners turning to more durable. The list follows gardeners or garden designers by occupation. Influential gardeners reveals the history and development of garden and landscape design in the 20th century by focusing on 56 key personalities who have shaped and continue to form today s taste in the 20th century garden and landscape designers in europe and the united states began to apply the same design principles to smaller private garden or to public spaces as had previously been.
Yet she may have been remembered foremost as a socialite had her marriage not collapsed in 1924. The november issue is on newsstands now or you can subscribe and download here here are our finest gardens by this year s top 50. Fr ederick law olmsted this american landscape designer popularly considered to be the father of american landscape architecture was born in hartford connecticut on april 26 1822.