- Jason Gardener
Jason Gardener (born September 18, 1975 in Bath, Somerset, England) is a British sprint athlete. Gardener was educated at Beechen Cliff School, Bath, where he now has a tutor group named after him. - Mark Gardener
Mark Gardener (born Mark Stephen Gardener, 6 December 1969, in Oxford, England) is an English rock musician, and former singer and guitarist with the popular shoegazing band, Ride. Oxford, EnglandGenre = Shoegazing<br />Britpop | Years_active = 1988 - present | Label = Creation Records<br />Shifty Disco<br />BMG<br />Truck Records<br />Excellent Records<br />United For Opportunity<br />Sonic Cathedral | Associated_acts = Ride<br />The Animalhouse - Daryl Gardener
Daryl Ronald Gardener (born February 25, 1973 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a former American Football defensive tackle who played nine seasons with the Miami Dolphins, the Washington Redskins and the Denver Broncos of the NFLfrom 1996 to 2004. <br/> - 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. - Alan Titchmarsh
Alan Titchmarsh, MBE (born 2 May 1949) is a famous English broadcaster, particularly in the field of gardening programmes on UK television, although Titchmarsh has also had lengthy stints presenting daytime and religious programming on BBC TV and BBC Radio 2. - Gayla Trail
Gayla Trail, (born July 31, 1973 at St. Catharines , Ontario is a Canadian writer, gardener, designer, photographer, and blogger. She released the popular urban gardening book You Grow Girl: The Ground Breaking Guide to Gardening in 2005 - Russell Page
Russell Page (1906-1985) was a British landscape architect and garden designer. Former partner of Geoffrey Jellicoe and author of "The Education of a Gardener" - Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll (November 29, 1843-December 8, 1932), (pronounced JEE-kul, to rhyme with 'treacle') was an influential British garden designer, writer, and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the UK, Europe and the USA and contributed over 1,000 articles to "Country Life", "The Garden" and other magazines. Gertrude Jekyll was born at 2 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London, the fifth of the seven children of Captain Edward JH Jekyll, … - Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Hamilton Lloyd (2 March 1921, in Great Dixter - 27 January 2006) was a British gardener and author. He was the 20th Century chronicler for the heavily planted, labour-intensive, country garden. - Kim Wilde
Kim Wilde (born Kim Smith, November 18, 1960 in Chiswick, West London) is an English pop singer, professional gardener, and pop cultural figure. She debuted in 1981 with the hit "Kids in America", which was number two in the UK Singles Chart. In 1986 she cracked the #1 spot in the United States with her hit "You Keep Me Hangin' On". - Vita Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, CH (March 9, 1892 - June 2, 1962), best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English poet, novelist and gardener. Her long narrative poem, "The Land", won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She won it again, becoming the only writer to do so, in 1933 with her "Collected Poems". She helped create her own gardens in Sissinghurst, Kent which provide the backdrop to Sissinghurst Castle. - Geoff Hamilton
Geoff Hamilton was a gardener and broadcaster born just a few minutes before his twin brother Tony, in Stepney, East London, England. His passion for gardening strengthened and during the school holidays Geoff expanded his knowledge by helping out in local nurseries, mainly at the Van Hage nursery at the end of his road. He went on to Writtle Agricultural College in Essex where he passed the National Diploma in Horticulture with distinction. - Piet Oudolf
Piet Oudolf is an influential Dutch garden designer, nurseryman and author. He is a leading figure of the "New Perennial" or "New Wave Planting" movement, using bold drifts of herbaceous perennial plants and grasses which are chosen for their structure as much as for their flower colour (if not more so). His books include "Gardening With Grasses" (1998) (with Michael King and Beth Chatto), … - 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. - Capability Brown
Lancelot Brown, more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener. He is remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener". He designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure. - Beth Chatto
Beth Chatto (born 1923) is a gardener and author best known for the "Beth Chatto Gardens" near Elmstead Market, in the English county of Essex. She is also known for writing about dry gardening. She received the Royal Horticultural Society's Victoria Medal in 1987. - Michael Lau
Michael Lau, is an artist from Hong Kong who is known for his illustration and designer toy figures. Lau is widely credited as the founder of the urban vinyl style within the designer toy movement. His work has had a significant effect on toy manufacturers, as well as street culture, including artists and musicians, throughout the world. His style is particularly influential to Asian and American hip-hop and skateboarding culture. Lau has won several awards for his work, … - Charlie Dimmock
Charlie Dimmock (born Charlotte Elouise Dimmock on August 10, 1966 in Southampton and brought up in Romsey, Hampshire) is an English gardening expert and presenter. She first came to the public's attention in 1998, when she joined the BBC gardening series "Ground Force". She also achieved a certain level of fame for choosing not to wear bras under her T-shirt. Since then, she has presented such programmes as "The Joy of Gardening", … - William Robinson
William Robinson (1838 - 1935) was a practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about "wild gardens" spurred the movement that is still recognized as the "English cottage garden," an outgrowth of the British Arts and Crafts movement. He advocated planting wild flowers to look wild and reacted against the High Victorian patterned gardening, using tropical materials grown in greenhouses and planted out, … - 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. - Joseph Paxton
Sir Joseph Paxton (3 August 1803 - 8 June 1865) was an English gardener and architect, best known for designing the The Crystal Palace. - Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman (born October 7 1948) is an American author, poet, and naturalist known best for her work "A Natural History of the Senses." Her writing style, referring to her best-selling natural history books, can best be described as a blend of poetry, colloquial history, and easy-reading science. She has taught at various universities, including Columbia and Cornell, and her essays regularly appear in distinguished popular and literary journals. - Harold Peto
Harold Ainsworth Peto (1854-1933) was an English architect and garden designer. He was the son of Sir Samuel Morton Peto of Somerleyton Hall. In 1876 he went into partnership with Ernest George and designed houses in Kensington and Chelsea but was forced to leave London due to ill health. In 1899 Harold moved to Iford Manor in Wiltshire, where he re-designed and expanded the garden, trying out new ideas, … - David Holmgren
David Holmgren (born 1955) is an ecologist, ecological design engineer and writer. He is perhaps most well known as co-originator of the permaculture concept with Bill Mollison. David Holmgren is a controversial figure. Through the spread of permaculture around the world, his environmental theory has exerted a global influence. - Jamie Durie
Jaime Durie (born 6 March 1970) is an Australian television personality of Sri Lankan origin. The former Channel Nine, now Channel Seven star has hosted a variety of programs, mostly "lifestyle" shows, including Channel Nine's Backyard Blitz, Renovation Rescue and The Block. Jamie is now the host of Channel Seven's Australia's Best Backyards. - 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. - Peter Cundall
Peter Cundall AM (born 1st April 1927 in Manchester, England) is a horticulturalist and television personality in Australia. He currently lives in Tasmania's Tamar Valley, and at the age of 80 continues to be a presenter of the ABC TV program "Gardening Australia". Amongst the gardeners of Australia, Peter Cundall has gained idol like popularity and is a household name. - Humphry Repton
Humphry Repton (April 21, 1752 - March 24, 1818), was the last great English landscape designer of the eighteenth century, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown; he also sowed the seeds of the more intricate and eclectic styles of the nineteenth century. His first name is often incorrectly rendered "Humphrey". - William Mason
William Mason (1724 - 1797) was an English poet, editor and gardener. He was born in Hull and studied at St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1754 and held a number of posts in the church. Among his works, none of them highly regarded today, are the historical tragedies "Elfrida" (1752) and "Caractacus" (1759) and a long poem on gardening, "The English Garden" (three volumes, 1772-82). - Roddy Llewellyn
Roderic Victor Llewellyn (born 9 October 1947 in Monmouthshire, Wales) is a British landscape gardener, gardening journalist, author and television presenter. He is the younger son of Sir Harry Llewellyn, an Olympic gold-medalist in show jumping, and his wife, the former Christine Saumarez. His elder brother is United Kingdom Independence Party politician Sir Dai Llewellyn. Llewellyn has written gardening columns for the "Daily Star", from 1981 - 1985, … - Percy Thrower
Percy Thrower MBE (30 January 1913 - 18 March 1988) was a British gardener. He presented various gardening programmes, starting in 1956 on the BBC's Gardening Club then later on the BBC's "Gardeners' World" from 1969 until 1976. He was also the gardener on the children's programme "Blue Peter" from 1974 until 1987, the longest-serving "Blue Peter" gardener. He is affectionately referred to as 'Percy Chucker' by Alan Titchmarsh, … - Charles Jones
Charles Harry Jones (1866- November 15 1959) was a gardener and photographer, noted for his still lifes of fruit and vegetables. Born in Wolverhampton, Charles Jones became a gardener working on a number of private estates in England from the 1890s. His gardening was noted for the quality of his flowerbeds and cultivation of fruits and vegetables. As a photographer, Jones was noted for his documentation of the fruits of his gardening labours. - Robert Hart
Robert A de J Hart (b. April 1 1913, d. March 7 2000) was the pioneer of forest gardening in the UK. Hart began his forest garden project at Wenlock Edge in Shropshire on the Welsh borders in the early 1960s with the intention of providing a healthy and therapuetic environment for himself and his brother Lacon, who was born with severe learning disabilities. - Ian Hamilton Finlay
Ian Hamilton Finlay, CBE, (28 October, 1925 - 27 March, 2006) was a Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener. - Eddie Albert
Eddie Albert, born Edward Albert Heimberger, (April 22 1906 - May 26 2005) was a popular Oscar and Emmy Award-nominated American stage, film, character actor, gardener and humanitarian activist, perhaps best known for playing Bing Edwards in the "Brother Rat" films, or for his role in the 1960s television comedy "Green Acres". - Don Burke
Don Burke (born July 16, 1947) is an Australian television personality and author. He is best known as the long time host of "Burke's Backyard", a lifestyle program which ran for 17 years from 1987 to its axing in late 2004 on the Nine Network. Burke was a pioneer in lifestyle TV shows, breaking new ground on Australian TV, with his show paving the way for numerous other shows such as "Our House" and "Getaway". - Edna Walling
Edna Walling (1895- 8 August 1973) was one of Australia's most influential landscape designers. Walling grew up in the village of Bickleigh in Devon, England. When she was 14 years old she emigrated to New Zealand and three years later moved with her family to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Walling studied horticulture at Burnley College and after some years as a jobbing gardener commenced a design practice in the 1920s. - Reginald Farrer
Reginald John Farrer, was a traveller and plant collector. He published a number of books, although is best known for "My Rock Garden". He travelled to Asia in search of a variety of plants, many of which he brought back to England and planted near his home village of Clapham, North Yorkshire. - Lawrence Johnston
Major Lawrence Johnston was a British soldier and garden creator. Johnston was born in Paris, France, into a family of wealthy American stockbrokers from Baltimore. He went to England to study at Cambridge University. Soon after his graduation, he became a naturalised Englishman. He joined the army and fought both in the Second Boer War and in World War I. He travelled extensively and was interested in the arts. - John Claudius Loudon
John Claudius Loudon (April 8, 1783 - 1843) was a Scottish botanist, garden and cemetery designer, and garden magazine editor.
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