Barthélémy Victor Rantonnet (c1812-1872), gardener, horticulturalist and French nurseryman, a pioneer in the acclimatisation of plants on Côte d'Azur, and worked in the garden that Jean-Baptiste Fihle de Sainte-Anne had created in Hyères (Var).
Buddleja davidii 'Castle School' is a recent introduction, cloned from a seedling discovered growing in the wall of the eponymous Castle School in Tiverton, Devon, England, by nurseryman Martin Hugh-Jones, and introduced to commerce in 2004.
Buddleja davidii 'Croyde' is a cultivar raised from a seedling discovered growing on waste ground in the eponymous Devon village by nurseryman Martin Hugh-Jones, and introduced to commerce in 2004.
Later on James Lee of St. Johns Wood, nurseryman and an astute businessman, heard of the plant and purchased it for £80.
Nurseryman James Atkins (1804–1884) of Northampton was one of the earliest, and the tall, early-flowering, robust Galanthus 'Atkinsii' is still widely grown: Canon Ellacombe of Bitton distributed 'Atkinsii' widely.
George W. Althofer OAM (1903-1993) was an Australian botanist, nurseryman, author and poet, with a special interest in the mint-bush genus Prostanthera as well as other Australian native plants, who founded the Burrendong Botanic Garden and Arboretum.
Henri Antoine Jacques (1782 Chelles, Seine-et-Marne – 1866) was a French nurseryman specialising in roses, and noted for having introduced the Bourbon rose from Île Bourbon to France.
He lived in Knightsbridge and was married to the daughter of John Kennedy of Hammersmith, a nurseryman who assisted Andrews in the descriptions of the plants he illustrated.
Will Ingwersen (1905–1990), nurseryman and alpine specialist of renown
The genus was named by Linnaeus after James Lee, the Scottish nurseryman based in Hammersmith, London who introduced many new plant discoveries to England at the end of the 18th century.
About 1874 M. Lalande, a nurseryman in Angers, France, selected from seedlings of P. coccinea an improved form, more freely berrying than the type.
His father, Robert Halley senior, was the younger son of a farming family, and had moved south from Perthshire, Scotland in his youth to make his own way in life, living for a while as Head Gardener to a family in Dorset, and then becoming a nurseryman at Blackheath.
However, in the 1932 Republican primary he was defeated by Henry Field, a Shenandoah, Iowa nurseryman.