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Adam, Robert (1728-1792)
One of four Scottish brothers, sons of the architect William Adam. Robert Adam with his brother James (1730-94) transformed Palladian Neoclassicism in England into the airy, light, elegant style that bears their name. Culzean Castle in Strathclyde and Mellerstain in the Scottish Borders are two of his outstanding achievements. His hand also lives on in the nterior design of Osterley Park and Syon House in Middlesex; Keddleston Hall in Derbyshire; Luton Hoo in Bedfordshire; Kenwood; the mausoleum at Bowood in Wiltshire, Harewood House and Newby Hall in Yorkshire.
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
English poet, essayist and dramatist, discusses aspects of landscape gardening in his essays in the Spectator. The Spectator No. 37 (12 April 1711), describes the perfect garden, in which Nature and Reason go hand in hand: 'Rocks shaped into grottoes covered with boodbindes and jessamines...springs made to run among pebbles.' Works of nature were 'more delightful than articifial shows' (No. 414, June 1712). His writing skill led to his holding important posts in government while the Whigs were in power.
Aislabie, John (d1742)
Member of Parliament, Chancellor of the Exchequer and victim of the South Sea Bubble, John Aislabie inherited the Studley Royal estate in North Yorkshire in 1699. He designed the moon-ponds around1725. He was one of the first to bring natural landscape into the garden, but unlike the later 'Capability' Brown, he contained it behind large yew hedges. His grand design for the gardens was to include the ruins of Fountains Abbey, but he had to make do with the view. Only when his neighbour died was his son William able to buy the ruins and complete the plan for the green-garden of Studley Royal.
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Bacon, Sir Francis (1561-1626)
Sir Francis, the English philosopher, inherited his father's estate at Gorhambury in Hertfordshire in 1602. He gardened here extensively and his notes outlining a scheme to make a four-acre water garden exist in the British Museum. Bacon's garden has gone, but his essay 'Of Gardens', published in 1625, a year before his death, remains.
Banks, Sir Joseph (1744-1820)
President of the Royal Society for over 40 years, Sir Joseph was a wealthy amateur scientist who accompanied Captain Cook on his 1768-76 expedition to the Pacific. He financed the botanical side of the expedition to the tune of £10,000. Appointed horticultural and botanical advisor to Kew Gardens in 1771, Sir Joseph was patron of plant collectors Francis Masson, William Kerr, James Bowsie and Alan Cunningham.
Bartram, John (1699-1777)
Son of John Bartram, chief botanist of the American colonies and founder of the Philadelphia Botanical Garden, John Bartram was the first native American botanist. He documented plants, animals and native peoples of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida in a series of writings with charming illustrations. He was responsible, through his correspondence with Peter Collinson, for introducing many American trees to Europe.
Beauharnais, Josephine de (1763-1814)
Born de la Pagerie, Josephine married the Vicomte de Beauharnais, then Napoleon I, from whom she was divorced in 1809. Empress Josephine gathered a famous nineteenth century collection of roses at the Château de Malmaison. The roses she collected may still be seen at l"Haÿ-les-Roses in Paris.
Beaumont, Guillaume
Designer of the late 17th century exotic topiary garden at Levens Hall, Cumbria, between 1690 and 1720. He created the first "ha-ha" known in Great Britain at Levens Hall.
Blaikie, Thomas (1758-1838)
One of the most remarkable gardeners of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Thomas Blaikie, was a Scotsman who spent the greater part of his life in France. He is chiefly noted for the fact that he laid out the gardens of Malmaison for the Empress Josephine. He was sent abroad in 1775 by Dr Fothergill (who had remarkable botanic gardens at Upton near Stratford.) and Dr Pitcairn, to search for rare alpine plants in Switzerland. After a sojourn in Switzerland he entered the service of the Comte de Lauraguais, then that of the Comte d'Artois, and worked under the latter's architect, Belanger. Thomas Blaikie made the original plan for the remarkable garden at Bagatelle.
Blomfield, Sir Reginald (1856-1942)
In his book Formal Garden in England (1892) he urged a return to simpler architectural formalities of Renaissance and seventeenth century gardens. Designed terrace garden at Mellerstain in the Scottish Borders and Sulgrave Manor garden.
Bramante, Donato (c.1444-1514)
Renaissance architect and garden designer who designed the Cortile del Belvedere at St Peter's Basilica in Rome.
Bridgeman, Charles (d1738)
His designs were used at Claremont, Rousham Hall, Stowe, Wimpole Hall and Wolterton Park gardens.
Brown, Lancelot ('Capability') (1716-1782)
Capability Brown (This name was bestowed on him due to his habit of saying that a place had great "capabilities") began life as an under-gardener in Lord Cobham's service, and he subsequently became head gardener to the Duke of Grafton, and then head gardener at Hampton Court. The famous vine there is said to have been planted by him. His influence was great, and owing to him, hundreds of fine old gardens were destroyed to make "landscapes". His designs were used at Blenheim Palace, Bowood, Chatsworth (Derbyshire), Chilham Castle, Claremont, Clumber park, Euston Hall, Harewood House (Yorkshire), Luton Hoo, Sheffield Park, Stowe, Syon Park (Middlesex), Warwick Castle, Wimpole Hall, Wrest Park.
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Cane, Percy (1881-1976)
An artist, architect and writer over many years, in 1930 Percy Cane founded and edited the quarterly journal Garden Design. He wrote Garden Design of Today (1934), The Earth is My Canvas (1956) and The Creative Art of Garden Design (1967). The results of his work may still be seen at Dartington Hall at Totnes, Falkland Palace in Fife, Hascombe Court at Godalming, Hungerdown House at Seagry and many other places including the palace grounds at Addis Ababa.
Clusius, Carolus (Charles de L'Ecluse) (1526-1609)
Flemish doctor and botanist who planned Europe's earliest botanic garden in the Hortius Botanicus in Leiden, Holland. As Prefect of the Royal Medicinal Garden in Prague, he started a collection of tulips from seed. He subsequently became Prefect of the botanic garden in Holland and over six hundred bulbs were planted at Leiden by 1593.
Compton, Major Edward (d1977)
Descendant of Bishop Henry Compton. He is quoted as saying of the fine house with uninspiring garden that he inherited in 1920 at Newby Hall in Yorkshire, that it was "..a lovely picture but no frame". He set about creating a garden of superb perspective and content.
Crowe, Dame Sylvia (1901-1998 )
Her design was used at Cottesbrooke Hall. Her book on garden design is a classic.
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Delavay, Father Jean Marie (1838-1895)
The first European botanist in western China. He discovered many garden plants in Yunnan. A magnolia and silver fir bear his name.
Don, George (-)
The first plant hunter sent out by the Horticultural Society, he collected both in West Africa and South America between 1820 and 1830. He was a native of Forfar in Scotland.
Douglas, David (1799-1834)
A native of Scone in Scotland, David Douglas studied at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens. On the recommendation of Sir William Hooker, he was employed by the Horticultural Society to travel to America's west coast and gather vast quantities of seed from species hitherto unknown in the UK, including the Douglas fir and Sitka spruce. Plants he introduced include Ribes sanguineum, Garrya elliptica, Clarkia, Godetia, Gaillardia, Lupin, Collinsia, Mimulus, Eschscholtzia and Penstemon. He met with a tragic end. When collecting in the Sandwich Islands, he fell into one of the pits made to catch wild bulls, and was gored to death.
Duchêne, Achille Jean Henri (1866-1947)
French architecte paysagiste who specialised in restoration of classical French gardens such as Vaux-le-Vicomte and Courances in France and Schlosspark Nordkirchen in Germany. Associated with pools and Mermaid Fountain at Blenheim Palace.
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First century AD Greek physician-in-ordinary to King Juba of Mauretania whose name was given by Dioscorides to the genus Euphorbia (spurge).
Evelyn, John (1620-1706)
Besides translating the most noted French gardening books, John Evelyn was the author of Kalendarium Hortense. Evelyn's Diary is full of references to gardens. He made a famous garden at Sayes Court, and he outlined a book on gardening, which, had he completed it, would have been of the first importance.
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Farrand, Beatrix (1872-1959)
Her designs were used at Dartington Hall and her beautifully documented city garden of Dunbarton Oaks, Washington DC.
Farrer, Reginald (1880-1920)
Botanical writer and plant-hunter, well known for his rock garden plants. With Euan Cox, visited Yunnan in 1919 and introduced the coffin-tree juniper, J. coxii.
Forrest, George (1873-1932)
George Forrest was the greatest of all collectors of rhododendrons, introducing hundreds of species from China and Tibet to Edinburgh Botanic Garden, including R.giganteum and R.sinogrande. Sponsored by A.K.Bulley of Ness, he went to China in 1904. He also specialised in primulas. He introduced a beautiful silver fir and a snakebark maple, both called forrestii.
Fortune, Robert (1812-1880)
A native of Berwickshire and a student at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, and at the Hoticultural Society gardens at Chiswick, he was sent to China by the Horticultural Society in 1843. The first collector in China to have relative freedom, he introduced many essential garden plants to the western world. His trees included the false larch, the Chinese plum yew, the umbrella pine and the Cryptomeria. In 1848 he returned to China and sent seeds and plants of the tea tree to India, thereby becoming the founder of the India Tea industry. Fortune had remarkable adventures in China. He went to Loo Chow disguised as a local, and it was there that he obtained the double yellow rose named after him. Garden plants introduced by him include Forsythia viridissima, jasminium nudiflorum, anemone japonica, Dielytra spectabilis, Kerria japonica, the white-flowered wisteria
Fraser, John (1750-1811)
A scotsman, John Fraser started business in London as a linen-draper near the Chelea Physick Garden. He gave up his business to become a plant collector. He crossed the Atlantic many times and some of our best known shrubs were introduced by him. Among these were Magnolia fraserii, Rhododendron catawbiense and Pieris floribunda.
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Gerard, John
John Gerard produced the earliest catalogue of the contents of an English garden 'Catalogus arborum fruticum et plantarum', dated 1596 (British Museum). He refers to the medicinal uses for herbs.
Gilpin, William Sawrey (1762-1845)
Author of Practical Hints for Landscape Gardening (1832). W.S.Gilpin, a designer with a romantic picturesque style, is associated with the garden designs at Balcaskie, Fife, and Scotney Castle, Kent.
Graveraux, Jules (1894-1916)
Known for his vast collection of roses at l"Haÿ-les-Roses in Paris and the help he gave in the planting of the roseraie in the garden at Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne.
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Hanbury, Sir Thomas
Sir Thomas was a wealthy Quaker and for 20 years a silk merchant in China. In 1867 he bought the Palazzo Orengo on the Italian Riviera around which, with his eminent botanist brother Daniel, he created the celebrated garden of La Mortola. On the death of G.F.Wilson in 1902, he bought his Oakwood Experimental Garden at Wisley and the following year presented it in trust to the Royal Horticultural Society.
Henry, Augustine (1857-1930)
Born in Dundee, Scotland, spent his childhood in County Derry, Ireland, Augustine Henry served in the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs. He collected for Kew for nearly twenty years. He sent over 15,000 dried specimens to Kew Gardens, of which about 500 were new species. After having studied forestry in France, he wrote his great book, Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, in collaboration with Henry John Elwes
Hooker, Sir Joseph D. (1817-1911)
Son of Sir William, who he succeded as Director of Kew Gardens. Sir Joseph Hooker returned from the Himalayas in 1850 with the magnificent Sikkim rhododendrons. He introduced the Himalayan birch and reported amongst other trees, the biggest of all magnolias, Magnolia Campbellii.
Hooker, Sir William Jackson (1785-1865)
One of the worlds great botanists, became the first Director of Kew Gardens. Published part one of his Handbook of the New Zealand Flora in 1864 and part two in 1868.
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Jekyll, Gertrude (1843-1932)
Gertrude Jekyll's book 'Wood and Garden' (1899) had an enormous influence on the English (and hence the world's) attitude to gardens. She saw beauty in natural effects. She collaborated in garden design with architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. She is associated with the garden at Bois des Moutiers, near Dieppe. Her planting designs were used at Broughton Castle, Hatchlands, Hestercombe and Knebworth.
Jellicoe, Sir Geoffrey (1900-1996)
Joint author with J.C.Shepherd of the classic Italian Gardens of the Renaissance. Other books were The Landscape of Man (1975) and Baroque Gardens of Austria. Sir Geoffrey's designs were used at Ditchley Park, Sandringham, Cliveden in Buckinghamshire, Cottesbroke Hall in Northamptonshire, Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire and the Moody Historical Gardens in Texas. He created the Kennedy Memorial at Runnymede and the fine canal at the RHS garden at Wisley.
Johnston, Major Lawrence (1871-1958)
Creator of Hidcote Manor Garden in Gloucestershire and various plant varieties including Verbena 'Lawrence Johnston' and Hypericum 'Hidcote'. Major Johnston was born in Paris of an English mother and American father. He personally collected many plants from Africa and China on a plant expedition in 1927. In the early twenties he bought La Serre de la Madonna near Menton in the South of France where he grew sub-tropical plants not suited to the Cotswolds.
Jones, Inigo (1573-1652)
English architect and painter who laid out gardens at Lincoln's Inn and, with Isaac de Caus, at Wilton House.
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Kennedy, Lewis (-)
In his early days Lewis Kennedy worked for his father's nursery (about 1812) at the garden of Malmaison for Josephine Boneparte. From 1818 until 1868 he created the remarkable formal garden at Drummond Castle in Perthshire.
Kent, William (1685-1748)
William Kent was a Yorkshireman who began life as a coachbuilder's apprentice, he was both a painter and an architect. Due to the influence of Lord Burlington, he was made painter and architect to the king. As a garden architect he was specially noted for his treatment of water. His dominating principle was "Nature abhors a straight line". The gardens he laid out are said to resemble Claude's landscape paintings. The chief gardens he laid out were Stowe, Claremont (Esher) and Rousham House (described by Horace Walpole as "the most engaging of all Kent's works"). His architectural designs were used at Euston Hall, Holkham and the Horseguards, Whitehall.
Kobori Enshu
Early seventeenth century Japanese gardener and tea-master who is remembered for his 'shakkei', borrowed scenery, technique of garden design.
Kniphof, J.H. (1704-1763)
German doctor and botanist after whom the southern African genus Kniphofia is named.
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Ligorio, Pirro (c.1520-1583)
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.
Linnaeus, Carl (1707-1778)
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.
Lobb, William
A Cornishman collecting for the firm of Messrs Veitch, in Chile. He is associated with the Monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria imbricata), the Wellingtonia (Sequoia gigantea) and Berberis darwinii.
London, George (d.1714)
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. 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, Studley Royal (Yorkshire) and Newby Hall (Yorkshire).
Loudon, John Claudius (1783-1843)
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'.
Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer (1869-1944)
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, Knebworth and many other houses and gardens.
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Mackenzie, Osgood (d1922)
Creator of Inverewe Garden, (Scottish West Highlands)
Marot, Daniel (1661-1752)
French garden designer who fled to the Netherlands subsequent to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and is associated with magnificent Het Loo baroque garden, in Veluwe region, laid out for Prince William of Orange (1650-1702) and Princess Mary II (1662-1695) and also at Hampton Court.
Mawson, Thomas (1861-1933)
Designed garden at Wightwick Manor.
Miller, Philip (1691-1771)
A Scotsman, succeeded his father as Curator of the Chelea Physic Garden. He was curator for sixty years, and made the garden the finest of its kind in Europe. His massive "Gardener's Dictionary," enlarged by Thomas Martyn, was the standard work on gardening in Europe and America for a century.
Mollet, André (d.c.1665)
A Frenchman who came from a family distinguished as gardeners for three generations. He was the first garden writer to advocate planting great avenues of trees. After the Restoration, Charles II appointed Mollet head gardener at St James, and under him the place was transformed in accordance with the French ideas, ie. the great avenues planted and the canal made.
Monet, Claude (1840-1926)
A leading middle-class painter of the Impressionist movement, Monet was also an accomplished botanist and a keen gardener. Starting in 1883, he transformed his garden at Giverny, France, into the subject for many of his immortal paintings.
More, Sir Thomas (1478-1535)
Had at his Chelsea home one of the most noted gardens in England. This garden occupied the site of what, until 1876, was Chelsea Park, now the Elm Park estate. A great avenue in Sir Thomas' garden led to the river side, where he kept his eight oared barge; for it was by river he went to Whitehall and the city. Few gardens were so much frequented by the celebrities of the day. King Henry VIII often spent whole days there, and other visitors were Erasmus, Colet, Linacre, to mention but a few. Sir Thomas More's name is always associated with rosemary, of which he wrote: "As for rosemarie I lette it runne all over my garden walls, not onlie because my bees love it, but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship whence a spray of it hath a dumb language."
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Le Nôtre, André (1613-1700)
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 pleasaunces, replacing them by vast gardens with impressive avenues, canals, etc. Le Nôtre was a man of very humble birth, for his father 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. He laid out the gardens at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles. Chatsworth and Wrest in England are after his style.
Nicolson, Sir Harold (1886-1968)
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.
Nesfield, William Andrews (1793-1881)
19th century artist and garden designer. Associated with rose gardens at Kew Gardens, Inverary Castle (Argyll), Balcaskie (Fife) and Castle Howard (Yorkshire).
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Page, Russell (1906-1985)
English author of The Education of a Gardener, Russell Page's garden designs were used at Leeds Castle (Kent), Port Lympne (Kent) and The Donald M.Kendall Sculpture Garden at Pepsi Cola's World Headquarters in Purchase, New York. His work is also to be found in France, Italy and Spain.
Paxton, Sir Joseph (1803-1865)
One of the greatest gardeners of the nineteenth century, Sir Joseph started as an assistant gardener at Chatsworth (Derbyshire) and ultimately became head gardener. He designed a magnificent Palm House there, which took four years to build. It was finished in 1840 and demolished in the early 1900s. This glasshouse inspired Paxton with the idea of the Crystal Palace, the plan that secured him his knighthood. Sir Joseph's designs were also used at Somerleyton (Suffolk) and the formal Italian gardens at Tatton Park (Cheshire).
Peto, Harold (1854-1933)
Harold Peto's designs were used at Buscot Park (Oxfordshire), Heale House (Wiltshire), Ilford Manor (Wiltshire), West Dean (West Sussex) and Ilnacullin (Glengarriff) Gardens.
Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus (23-79)
Roman writer, the author of the encyclopedic Natural History. He died from fumes and exhaustion during the eruption of Vesuvius.
Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (c61-113)
Nephew of Pliny the Elder, Roman writer, Governer of Bithynia and owner of two villas, his winter Laurentian villa (near Ostia, on the west coast of Italy) and the summer Tuscan villa (inland, at the foot of the Apennines). Noted for his letters of historical interest.
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Repton, Humphrey (1752-1818)
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). In many ways the successor to 'Capability Brown'. His gardens revealed a softening of Brownian principals. His designs were used at Antony House, Bowood, Clumber Park, Hatchlands, Plas Newydd, Sheffield Park, Sheringham Park (Norfolk), Tatton Park and Wimpole Hall.
Robinson, William (1838-1935)
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 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.
Roper, Lanning (1912-1983)
An American garden designer whose designs were used at the formal gardens at the RHS garden at Wisley, Claverton Manor and the herb garden at Scotney Castle in Kent.
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Sackville-West, Vita (1892-1962)
Vita Sackville West was an English novelist, poet, and journalist who wrote chiefly about the Kentish countryside, where she spent most of her life. She and her husband, Harold Nicolson, bought Sissinghurst and made one of the world's greatest gardens there. She was daughter of the 3rd Baron Sackville, owner of the Knole estate, the largest house in England. "Portrait of a Marriage was written in 1973 by her son, Nigel Nicolson, and is based on his mother's journal dealing with her husband and her love affair with another woman.
Schinz, Marina
Author of 'Visions of Paradise' 1987, 1989.
Soseki (Musokokushi) (1275-1351)
A Zen priest and probably the most important figure in Japanese medieval garden design. His work marked the real watershed between the traditional and Pure-Land forms of gardens and the later gardens that developed under the influence of Zen and the tea ceremony. His gardens include the pond and waterfall at Tentyuji (Kyoto), the small garden at Toji-in (Kyoto) and the moss gardens at Saiho-ji (Kyoto).
Spruce, Richard (1817-1893)
Richard Spruce was born at Ganthorpe in North Yorkshire in 1817. When he was 19 he published A List of Flora of the Malton District naming 485 species. In his early twenties he was invited to go to the Pyrenees to study plant life. He returned with a specimen of every known plant growing there and 73 which had never been found there before, 17 of which were unknown. In 1848 he went to the Amazon and spent 15 years collecting flowers, plants and mosses. The hardship he suffered in the jungle nearly killed him. He listed over 700 species, collecting 500 of them himself of which 400 were new to botanists. He returned to his native countryside and died at Coneysthorpe, North Yorkshire, in 1893. His grave lies in the village churchyard at Terrington.
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Tradescant, John (1608-1662)
The name of Tradescant is of the first importance. Many of our best known garden plants are associated with their names. The Tradescants were an East Anglian family of Dutch origin. In 1607 John Tradescant the Elder married at Meopham, being then in the service of Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury and Lord Treasurer of England. His name is chiefly associated with Hatfield, and he was several times sent abroad to buy fruit trees. Amongst fruits his name is particularly associated with Tradescant's Cherry which is figured in the collection of paintings of fruits known as 'Tradescant's Orchard, in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Also at Oxford, in the Ashmolean Museum is their collection of 'all things strange and rare'. Both Tradescants are buried next to Admiral Bligh of the 'Bounty', in the churchyard of St Mary-at-Lambeth, next door to Lambeth Palace.
Turner, Richard (1798-1881)
Dublin ironmaster and builder who designed the glasshouses at Glasnevin (1843-1869) and the Palm House at Kew (1844-1848 in collaboration with Decimus Burton).
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Vanbrugh, Sir John (1664-1726)
English playwright and architect of Castle Howard (North Yorkshire), Blenheim Palace (Oxfordshire), Stowe (Buckinghamshire) and Claremont (Surrey).
van Nost, John
The greatest maker of garden ornaments of the early 18th century. See his statue of Hercules at Powis Castle (Wales).
Vignola, Giacomo da (1507-1573)
Italian architect who designed the Renaissance garden at Villa Lante in 1564.
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Ward, Frank Kingdon (1885-1958)
Frank Kingdon Ward travelled widely in the Himalayas and published several readable accounts of his experiences in the 1920s including The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges and The Romance of Plant Hunting. He collected unusual primulas, lilies, rhododendrons and gentians. He studied the distribution of the Meconopsis in Tibet.
Wilson, Dr Ernest Henry (1876-1930)
One of the most famous plant hunters, who collected in the East for Harry Veitch's nursery and others including the Arnold Arboretum in Boston. He discovered over 3,000 species. Among the 1,000 new shrubs he introduced to Europe is the easily grown and popular Lilium regale. His trees include the paperbark maple, the giant dogwood and Magnolia Wilsonii.
Wise, Henry (1653-1738)
Henry Wise was superintendant of the royal gardens at the (recently restored) 1701 re-creation of the King's Privy Garden for William III at Hampton Court as recorded in the panoramic painting by Leonard Knyff. In partnership with George London, Henry Wise is associated with aspects of the design of gardens at Studley Royal Castle Howard and Newby Hall in Yorkshire and at Blenheim Palace and Chatsworth.
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