Women Garden Designers: 1900 To The Present

This book presents twenty-seven of the most important and influential women garden designers and their gardens, showing both their finest commissions as well as the gardens they designed for themselves, in their own space.

Beginning with Gertrude Jekyll and Beatrix Farrand, who were working simultaneously, though on different sides of the Atlantic, the book then moves on into the 20th century, featuring international designers as diverse as Florence Yoch - who created gardens for film sets and for Hollywood homes -,Vita Sackville-West - whose own garden at Sissinghurst influenced those in Britain -, Edna Walling, Herta Hammerbacher and Rosemary Weisse, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Monica Gora, Topher Delaney, Haruko Seki, Isabel du Prat, etc.

The carefully researched text examines their influences and their legacy to garden design.