Gardeners and Designers

Beatrix Farrand - A biography of a founder member of the American Society of Landscape Architects
www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9291866

Carl Linnaeus - A biography of the founder of modern botany
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html

Frederick Law Olmsted - Resources concerning the life and works of Frderick Law Olmsted, the greatest of 19th century American landscape architects.
www.newbedford.com/olmsted.html

Frederick Law Olmsted, founder of landscape architecture - The Life and Work of Frederick Law Olmsted. A selected bibliography and links to related sites.
www.fredericklawolmsted.com/

History of Horticulture - Jekyll, Gertrude 1843-1935, short introduction to her life and work.
www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hort/history/093.html

Museum of History Gertrude Jekyll Room - Garden designer and prolific writer on gardens and gardening with short biography.
www.compulink.co.uk/~museumgh/jekyll.htm

Sisley Garden Tours - An alphabetical directory of many gardening personalities down the ages.
www.sisley.co.uk/gardeners.shtml

Thomas Mawson - A brief biography of his life from 1861-1933. His book, The Art and Craft of Garden Making, is widely accepted as the foundation of modern landscape architecture.
www.visitcumbria.com/mawson.htm

Wikipedia: Fletcher Steele - Open encyclopedia article on the influential American designer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Steele