- Henry Doubleday
Henry Doubleday (24 October 1808 - 13 December 1902) was an English scientist and horticulturist of Coggeshall in Essex. Henry Doubleday was the son of William Doubleday and his wife Hannah Corder. His father was a shopkeeper in Coggeshall; the family were all Quakers. He lived at the same time as his cousin Henry Doubleday (1808-1875) the entomologist and ornithologist. - Henry Doubleday
Henry Doubleday (1 July 1808 - 29 June 1875) was an English entomologist and ornithologist. Henry Doubleday was the eldest son of Quaker and grocer Benjamin Doubleday and his wife Mary of Epping, Essex. He and his brother Edward Doubleday spent their childhood collecting natural history specimens in Epping Forest. He lived at the same time as his cousin Henry Doubleday (1810-1902) the scientist and horticulturist. - John Innes
John Innes JP, (1829-8 August 1904), was born in Hampstead, Middlesex (now London). He was a City merchant who owned land in the parish of Merton where he was "Lord of the Manor" at the end of the 19th century. Taking advantage of demand for new housing arising from the growth of neighbouring Wimbledon, Innes developed his land for housing giving it the name "Merton Park". The area is now part of the London Borough of Merton. - Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. Born in South Haven, Michigan, he was educated and taught at the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) before moving to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he was director of the College of Agriculture. He edited "The Cyclopedia of American Agriculture" (1907-09), … - Michael Dirr
Michael A. Dirr, Ph.D is a horticulturist and a professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia. He is an expert on woody plants. - Allan Armitage
Allan M. Armitage is professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia, Athens, where he teaches, conducts research, and runs the University of Georgia Horticulture Gardens—producing annual guidelines for annuals and perennials suitable for heat and humidity. Allan travels widely as a lecturer and consultant and has received numerous awards from nursery trade groups and horticultural organizations, including the Medal of Honor from the Garden Club of America. - Bill Mollison
Bill Mollison (born 1928 in Tasmania, Australia) is a researcher, author, scientist, teacher, naturalist and has been called the 'father of permaculture', an integrated system of design co-developed with David Holmgren that encompasses not only agriculture, horticulture, architecture and ecology but also economic systems, land access strategies and legal systems for businesses and communities. He received the Right Livelihood Award in 1981 with Patrick van Rensburg. - Neil Sperry
He has broadcast over KRLD (1080 AM) in the Dallas/Fort Worth area since May, 1980. "Neil Sperry's Texas Gardening" is heard Saturday and Sunday mornings 8 until 11. Additionally his daily and weekend radio programs are heard on more than 60 stations statewide via the Texas State Network. Neil owns and publishes Neil Sperry's GARDENS Magazine. He publishes an annual Texas Gardening Calendar which features another of his loves, garden photography. - Ed Rosenthal
Ed Rosenthal (born Bronx, New York, 1944) is a California horticulturist, author, publisher, and cannabis grower. He was arrested in 2002 for cultivation of cannabis by federal authorities, who do not recognize the authority of states to allow the use of medical cannabis. He was convicted in a trial presided over by Federal District Court Judge Charles Breyer but the conviction was overturned on appeal. Rosenthal briefly attended Youngstown State University in Youngstown, … - Graham Stuart Thomas
Graham Stuart Thomas OBE (born 3 April, 1909 in Cambridge - died April 16, 2003) was an English horticultural artist, author and garden designer. He studied in the University Botanic Garden at Cambridge University. For thirty years he was Gardens Adviser to the National Trust and in 1975 received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his work with that organization. - Monty Don
Montagu 'Monty' Denis Wyatt Don (born July 8,1955) is a BBC television presenter, writer and speaker on horticulture. Monty is perhaps best described as a gardening-guru, despite receiving no formal training as a gardener. In his own words "I was - am - an amateur gardener and a professional writer. - Tony Lord
Tony Lord is a United Kingdom gardener, photographer and author. In 2005 the Royal Horticultural Society awarded him the Victoria Medal of Honour (V.M.H) for his work as a garden photographer, horticultural consultant and writer. Lord received his gardening training at Kew Gardens, holds a doctorate in horticulture, and later was the Gardens Adviser for the British National Trust. - Theodore Payne
Theodore Payne was born in Northamptonshire, England and served an apprenticeship in horticulture. He moved to Los Angeles in 1893 and fell in love with the California flora, dedicating his life to its preservation. Even in the early years of this century, native vegetation was being lost to agriculture and housing at an alarming rate. - Griffith Buck
Griffith Buck was a professor of horticulture who created over 80 named cultivars of the rose, all of which are capable of withstanding temperatures of -20°F and need no pesticides or fungicides to thrive. Buck's introduction to rose breeding took place when he was a high school student in Rockford, Illinois, where he began a correspondence with the Spanish rose breeder Pedro Dot. - Robert Trent Jones
Robert Trent Jones, Sr. (June 20, 1906 - June 14, 2000) was a golf course architect who designed (or re-designed) about 500 golf courses in at least 40 US states and 35 other countries all around the world. It has been jokingly said that, "The sun never sets on a Robert Trent Jones golf course." Born in Ince, England, Jones accompanied his parents to the United States at the age of five. - Professor David Robinson
David Robinson was a passionate Irish horticultural scientist who made important constributions to the national and international field of horticulture and agriculture throughout his entire life. After a working life in the field of research, retirement saw his life change. He became a journalist and television/radio presenter and, as a sideline, led gardening tours around the world. In his 'spare time' he managed the internationally renowned Earlscliffe garden in Baily, … - Tom Hart Dyke
Thomas Hart Dyke (born c. 1976) is an English horticulturist and plant hunter. He is the designer of The World Garden of Plants at the family seat of Lullingstone Castle, Eynsford, Kent in southern England. The World Garden contains over 10 000 species of plants, many collected by Hart Dyke from their native environments. - Andrew George
Andrew Henry George (born December 2, 1958) British politician. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for St Ives, in Cornwall. Andrew George was born in Mullion near The Lizard, Cornwall, one of eight children born to a horticulturalist father and music teacher mother, and was educated locally at the Helston School, before attending the University of Sussex where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in cultural and community studies in 1980. - John Claudius Loudon
John Claudius Loudon (April 8, 1783 - 1843) was a Scottish botanist, garden and cemetery designer, and garden magazine editor. - Loddiges
The Loddiges family (not uncommonly mis-spelt "Loddige") managed one of the most notable of the eighteenth and nineteenth century plant nurseries that traded in and introduced exotic plants, trees, shrubs, ferns, palms and orchids into European gardens. - Robert Bateman
Robert Bateman (1842-1922) was an English painter, illustrator, sculptor, architect and scholar. He was the third son of James Bateman (1812-1897), the accomplished horticulturist and landowner, who built Biddulph Grange and its gardens, in Staffordshire. Robert attended the Royal Academy schools in the 1860s, and from about 1870 he was the leader of a group of artists inspired by the art of Edward Burne-Jones. - Charles Eliot
Charles Eliot (November 1, 1859 - March 25, 1897) was a leading American landscape architect, whose career was cut short by untimely death at age 38 from spinal meningitis. Eliot pioneered many of the fundamental principles of regional planning and laid the conceptual and political groundwork for land and historical conservancies across the world. In addition, he played a central role in shaping the Boston Metropolitan Park System, … - Francis Parkman
Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of "The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life" and his monumental seven volume "France and England in North America." These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met with criticism. - Gideon Gono
Gideon Gono is the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and former CEO of the Jewel Bank, formerly known as the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe. He started his career with ZimBank, another Government Bank and eventually moved to the Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe. He was appointed by Professor Jonathan Moyo to head the University of Zimbabwe Council and awarded himself with an honorary degree. Gono has also implemented a host of highly-criticised moves. - Chris Baines
Professor Chris Baines, is an English gardener, naturalist, television presenter and author. Baines grew up in Sheffield. He worked in the local parks department when he left school, and then studied horticulture and landscape architecture at university. - Edgar Anderson
Edgar Anderson (November 9 1897 - June 18 1969) was an American botanist. His 1949 book "Introgressive Hybridization" was an original and important contribution to botanical genetics. Anderson was born in Forestville, New York, when he was three his family moved to East Lansing, Michigan where his father had accepted a position to teach dairy husbandry. In 1914 Anderson entered Michigan Agricultural College to study botany and horticulture. - Neil Andrew
John Neil Andrew (born 7 June 1944), Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1983 to October 2004, representing the Division of Wakefield, South Australia. He was born in Waikerie, South Australia, and was a horticulturalist before entering politics. Having been for 15 years a little-known Liberal backbencher, Andrew became Speaker of the House after the October 1998 elections. - Thomas Andrew Knight
Thomas Andrew Knight was a horticulturalist and botanist who lived at Downton Castle, Herefordshire. He was the brother of Richard Payne Knight. He used the 10,000 acres (40 km²) he inherited to conduct breeding of strawberries, cabbages, peas, and others. He also built an extensive greenhouse. In 1797 he published a Treatise on the Culture of the Apple and Pear. He was one of the leading students of horticulture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, … - William Lucas
William Lucas (November 30, 1800 - August 29, 1877) was a nineteenth century politician and lawyer from Virginia. He was the brother of Edward Lucas. Born at "Cold Spring" near Shepherdstown, Virginia (now West Virginia), Lucas attended the village schools and went on to graduate from Tucker Law School in 1825, being admitted to the bar the same year. He commenced practice in Shepherdstown before moving to Charles Town, … - John Wedgwood
John Wedgwood (Christened 2 April 1766 - 26 January 1844), the eldest son of the potter Josiah Wedgwood, was a partner in the Wedgwood pottery firm from 1790-1793, and again 1800-1812. He was educated at Warrington Academy, and Edinburgh University. He married Louisa Jane Allen (younger sister of his brother Josiah Wedgwood II's wife, Bessie) in 1794. They had six children, one of whom died in infancy: * Col. - André Thouin
André Thouin was a French botanist who was born in Paris. He studied botany under Bernard de Jussieu (1699-1777). In 1793 Thouin attained the chair of horticulture at Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. Thouin was a good friend of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, and his younger brother Gabriel Thouin (1747-1829) was a noted landscape architect. Thouin is remembered for his contributions made in the field of agronomy, … - Iris Bannochie
Iris Bannochie is a Barbadian horticulturalist of Irish descent who is the leading expert on horticulture on the island of Barbados. She owns Andromeda Gardens, a scenic park with strikingly attractive flowering plants and tropical trees in the village of Bathsheba, Saint Joseph in Barbados. - Henry Kock
Henry Kock (born 1952 - December 25, 2005) was a noted horticulturist, eco-activist, and founder of the Elm Recovery Project in Ontario. Born near Sarnia, Ontario, Kock grew up working for the family business, Huronview Nurseries. A graduate of the University of Guelph in 1977 with an emphasis on horticulture, he stayed connected to the university up until his death. Affectionately known as "Mr. Arboretum", he was diagnosed with brain cancer in July 2004, … - Francis Cabot
Francis Higginson Cabot (born 1925), C.M., C.Q. is an Canadian gardener and horticulturalist. He is renowned for his estate gardens around the world. His private garden in the Charlevoix region of Quebec covers more than 20 acres and is called Les Quatre Vents. In 2005, he was made an honorary Member of the Order of Canada. In 2000, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. - Benjamin Bussey
Benjamin Bussey (1757-1842), was a prosperous merchant, farmer, horticulturalist and patriot in Boston, Massachusetts who made significant contributions to the creation of Arnold Arboretum. Bussey owned land in what is now the Forest Hills area of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. - Edward Payson Roe
Edward Payson Roe (7 March 1838 - 19 July 1888) was an American novelist born in Moodna, Orange County, New York. He studied at Williams College and at Auburn Theological Seminary. In 1862 He became chaplain of the Second New York Cavalry, U.S.V., and in 1864 chaplain of Hampton Hospital, in Virginia. In 1866-74 he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Highland Falls, New York. - Charles de L'Écluse
Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius, seigneur de Watènes, was the Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th century scientific horticulturists. He studied at Montpellier with the famous medical professor Guillaume Rondelet, though he never practiced medicine. - Lindsay Falvey
John Lindsay Falvey (born May 23, 1950) known as Lindsay Falvey, is a writer and author on topics concerning agricultural philosophy, religion, international development and more lately spiritual development. He is a member for life of Clare Hall, Cambridge, at the University of Cambridge, and is a professor of the University of Melbourne, where he was previously Chair of Agriculture, Dean of Land and Food Resources, Dean of Agriculture, … - Trofim Lysenko
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko was a biologist and agronomist who was dictator of Soviet biology under Joseph Stalin. Lysenko rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of the hybridization theories of Russian horticulturist Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, and adopted them into a powerful political scientific movement termed Lysenkoism. His unorthodox experimental research in improved crop yields earned the support of Soviet leadership, … - Thomas Volney Munson
Thomas Volney Munson (1843-1913), often referred to simply as T.V. Munson, was a horticulturist and breeder of grapes from Texas. Working in Denison, Texas, he made extensive use of native American grape species, and devoted a great deal of his life to collecting and documenting them. He released hundreds of named cultivars, though only a few remain of significance today.
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