Historic Gardeners
The following names, roughly in historical order, made contributions that affected the history of gardens, whether as botanist explorers, designers, garden-makers, or writers. Further information on them will be found under their individual entries.
- Theophrastus
- Lucullus
- Tiberius
- Pliny the Elder
- Pliny the Younger
- John Tradescant the elder and his son of the same name
- Carolus Clusius
- Andre le Nôtre
- Thomas Hill
- John Evelyn
- George London
- Henry Wise
- William Kent
- Lancelot "Capability" Brown
- Humphry Repton
- Andrew Jackson Downing
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- George Loddiges
- Giovanni Baptista Ferrari
- John Loudon
- Hotsukimaru
- Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell
- Peter Joseph Lenné
- Joseph Paxton
- Thomas Jefferson
- William Robinson (gardener)
- Gertrude Jekyll
- Constance Villiers-Stuart
- Lawrence Johnston
- Edwin Lutyens
- Vita Sackville-West
- Claude Monet
- Jens Jensen
- Theodore Payne
- Beatrix Farrand
- Florence Yoch + Louise Council
- Ganna Walska
- Lockwood DeForest
- A.E. Hanson
- Russell Page
- Luis Barragán
- Gustav Ammann
- Lawrence Halprin
- Roberto Burle Marx
- Xavier de Winthuysen
- Nicolau María Rubió i Tudurí
- Sylvia Crowe
- Gerard Ciołek (1909–1966)
- Masanobu Fukuoka
- Ihei Masatake
- Ihei Sannojo
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