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Gertrude Jekyll
Introduction with links to her garden at Hestercombe, books and an photograph of her.
http://fbox.vt.edu:10021/V/vwhorley/gerthome.html
Museum of History Gertrude Jekyll Room
Garden designer and prolific writer on gardens and gardening with short biography.
http://www.compulink.co.uk/~museumgh/jekyll.htm
History of Horticulture
Jekyll, Gertrude 1843-1935, short introduction to her life and work.
http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hort/history/093.html
Penelope Hobhouse Reaps What She Sows
An article about the English garden author and designer, from the Christian Science Monitor.
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/03/25/feat/garden.1.html
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.
http://www.visitcumbria.com/mawson.htm
Sisley Garden Tours
An alphabetical directory of many gardening personalities down the ages.
http://www.sisley.co.uk/gardners.htm
Carl Linnaeus
A biography of the founder of modern botany
http://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.
http://www.newbedford.com/olmsted.html
Biographical index to garden designers
Indexed biographical notes on garden history: designers, writers, thinkers, patrons and others who have influenced gardens.
http://www.gardenvisit.com/b/bio.htm
Beatrix Farrand
A biography of a founder member of the American Society of Landscape Architects
http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=14660
Fletcher Steele Landscape Architect
Biographical information on the pioneer modernist designer, from the SUNY Faculty.
http://cela2002.esf.edu/research/Steele/Home.htm
Frederick Law Olmsted, founder of landscape architechture
The Life and Work of Frederick Law Olmsted. A selected bibliography and links to related sites.
http://www.fredericklawolmsted.com/
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