Gardeners and Designers
Links
Beatrix Farrand
http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9291866
A biography of a founder member of the American Society of Landscape Architects
Carl Linnaeus
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html
A biography of the founder of modern botany
Fletcher Steele Landscape Architect
http://cela2002.esf.edu/research/Steele/Home.htm
Biographical information on the pioneer modernist designer, from the SUNY Faculty.
Frederick Law Olmsted
http://www.newbedford.com/olmsted.html
Resources concerning the life and works of Frderick Law Olmsted, the greatest of 19th century American landscape architects.
Frederick Law Olmsted, founder of landscape architechture
http://www.fredericklawolmsted.com/
The Life and Work of Frederick Law Olmsted. A selected bibliography and links to related sites.
History of Horticulture
http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hort/history/093.html
Jekyll, Gertrude 1843-1935, short introduction to her life and work.
Museum of History Gertrude Jekyll Room
http://www.compulink.co.uk/~museumgh/jekyll.htm
Garden designer and prolific writer on gardens and gardening with short biography.
Sisley Garden Tours
http://www.sisley.co.uk/gardners.htm
An alphabetical directory of many gardening personalities down the ages.
Thomas Mawson
http://www.visitcumbria.com/mawson.htm
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.
