Piet Oudolf

Piet Oudolf

male
Piet Oudolf is an influential Dutch garden designer, nurseryman and author. He is a leading figure of the "New Perennial" or "New Wave Planting"...

Loddiges

male
The Loddiges family (not uncommonly mis-spelt "Loddige") managed one of the most notable of the eighteenth and nineteenth century plant nurseries...
Lisa Potts

Lisa Potts

female
Lisa Potts, GM (married name Webb) is a former nursery teacher. She was injured in 1996 while protecting children in her St Luke's Primary School...
Karen Platt

Karen Platt

female
Karen Platt is a British gardening author and publisher, best known for the reference book "Black Magic and Purple Passion". She started her...
Jules Gravereaux

Jules Gravereaux

male, deceased (1916)
Jules Gravereaux was a French rosarian. The son of a nursery operator, he became an executive at Le Bon Marché and in 1892 purchased land at the v...
Earl Tupper

Earl Tupper

male, deceased (1983)
Earl Silas Tupper (July 28, 1907-October 5, 1983) was the inventor of Tupperware, an airtight plastic container for storing food. He was born on a...
Joseph Pernet-Ducher

Joseph Pernet-Ducher

male, deceased (1928)
Joseph Pernet-Ducher was a French rosarian and hybridizer. Born near Lyon, the son of Jean Pernet, he was a third generation rose-grower. In 1879...
Jean Pernet, Père

Jean Pernet, Père

male, deceased (1896)
Jean Claude Pernet, père was a French rosarian known for his cultivation of rose cultivars. He was born to a family of rose growers in V...
David Ross Boyd

David Ross Boyd

male, deceased (1936)
David Ross Boyd (1853 - 1936) was the first president of the University of Oklahoma. He was born in Coshocton, Ohio, and after obtaining a...
Anxo Quintana

Anxo Quintana

male
Anxo Manuel Quintana González is the current leader of the Galician Nationalist Block (Bloque Nacionalista Galego), the main Galician Nationalist p...