Title: Eminent gardeners :
Authors: Brown, Jane.
Date: 1990
Publisher: Viking,
Physical description: 183 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: S
Abstract: Reveals some little known gardeners of the 20th century such as Frances Wolsley, the soldier's daughter who had to fight for her belief in gardening as a woman's career and Lawrence Johnston, the creator of Hidcote Manor Garden. The author also presents a new aspect of Gertrude Jekyll.
Contents: Frances Wolseley -- The Henry James Americans -- Norah Lindsay -- Academic gardeners -- The Lords Fairhaven -- Christopher Tunnard -- Gertrude Jekyll -- at home and abroad -- Endword.
Subject headings (LCSH): Biographies.; Gardeners--England--Biography.; Gardeners--England.; Gardeners--Great Britain--Biography.; Gardens--Great Britain--Design.; Landscape architecture--Great Britain.