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Alfred Rehder

Alfred Rehder (4 September 1863, Waldenburg, Saxony - 25 July 1949) was a horticulturist and taxonomist who worked at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green

McAlpine founded his own publishing house in London in the 1960s, and was variously an art dealer, art collector, zookeeper (in Broome, Western Australia), horticulturist, aviculturist, agriculturist, gardener and passionate traveller.

Ardastra Gardens, Zoo and Conservation Centre

Ardastra Gardens, Zoo and Conservation Centre in Nassau, The Bahamas opened in 1937 though the work of the Jamaican horticulturist, Hedley Vivian Edwards.

Billbergia 'Theodore L. Mead'

Theodore Luqueer Mead was an American horticulturist who favored the Billbergia genera in his hydridising work.

Charles François Antoine Morren

Charles François Antoine Morren (3 March 1807 Ghent - 17 December 1858 Liège), was a Belgian botanist and horticulturist, and Director of the Jardin botanique de l’Université de Liège.

Charles Henry Totty

Charles Henry Totty (September 7, 1873, Shropshire, England - December 11, 1939, Orange, New Jersey) was a renowned horticulturist who was responsible for establishing the First International Flower Show in New York City.

Charles Morren

Charles François Antoine Morren (1807-1858) (C.Morren), Belgian botanist, horticulturist and professor at the University of Liège

Dryden, Washington

Only the name Dryden was assigned to the area by the railroad in honor of Canadian horticulturist and Minister of Agriculture John Dryden who toured with Great Northern Railway president James J. Hill.

Eduard Ortgies

Louis van Houtte, the Ghent horticulturist who established a garden that soon became world famous and who founded the illustrated gardening journal Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, was wildly enthusiastic about being the first on the Continent to cultivate Victoria regia.

Encephalartos ghellinckii

Named for Édouard de Ghellinck de Walle, the 19th Century Ghent plant collector, horticulturist and amateur botanist who first cultivated it in Europe, it was formally described in 1868 by Charles Antoine Lemaire, the French taxonomist who happened to be an authority on Cactaceae.

Frances Margaret Leighton

Frances Margaret Leighton (8 March 1909 King William's Town - 8 January 2006 Blairgowrie, Victoria) was a South African botanist and the daughter of James Leighton (1855-1930), a Scotsman and Kew horticulturist and plant collector.

Frank Welch

Frank Corbett Welch (1900–1986), Canadian exporter, farmer, horticulturist, and Senator

George Park

George Watt Park (1853–1935), American horticulturist and businessman

Hjeltnes

Kristofer Kristofersson Hjeltnes (1856–1930), Norwegian horticulturist and politician

James Kidd

James Hutton Kidd (1877–1945), New Zealand horticulturist and community leader

Jean Houzeau de Lehaie

Jean Auguste Hippolyte Houzeau de Lehaie (6 March 1867 - 4 September 1959) was a Belgian biologist and horticulturist who devoted his career to the botany of bamboo species and the introduction of many into European gardening practice through his property, L'Hermitage, near Mons in the Belgian province of Hainaut.

Johannes Böttner

Johannes Böttner (b September 3, 1861 in Greußen, Germany - d April 28, 1919 in Frankfurt (Oder)) was a German horticulturist.

Juniper Level Botanic Gardens

Established in 1988 by horticulturist Tony Avent, Juniper Level Botanic Gardens is owned and operated by Tony Avent and wife Anita Avent.

Laboratory Row

Originally designed as a laboratory for horticulturist Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1888, it housed the horticulture department until 1924, when the new horticulture building, now known as Old Horticulture, opened.

Lancaster, Massachusetts

Luther Burbank, botanist, horticulturist and a pioneer in agricultural science

Leucanthemum × superbum

It originated as a hybrid produced in 1890 by the American horticulturist Luther Burbank, Leucanthemum lacustre (Brot.) Samp.

Lonicera fragrantissima

In 1853 the editor of American gardening magazine The Horticulturist wrote that the previous year he had been sent a specimen from a plant that had been flowering in the gardens of Hatfield House, the Marquess of Salisbury's stately home in Hertfordshire.

Louis Boehmer

In January 1871, when Kuroda Kiyotaka was in the United States hiring foreign advisors for his Hokkaidō Colonization Office, Boehmer was recommended as a horticulturist by a mutual friend of Horace Capron.

Luite Klaver

He happened to be the first horticulturist to cultivate Gerberas.

Magnolia × wieseneri

However, Élie-Abel Carrière had named a specimen six months earlier in 1890 after a Mr Wiesener, who had purchased a plant from a Japanese horticulturist at the Trocadéro at the same time as the Exposition, and hence the French botanist's name was preserved under International Code of Botanical Nomenclature naming rules.

Mahonia

The genus name Mahonia honors the Philadelphia horticulturist Bernard McMahon who introduced the plant from materials collected by the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

McDonald family

The neighborhood’s popularity was enhanced by a range of amenities including gas and water service, a new streetcar line established by Colonel McDonald, and an extensive tree planting program implemented with the assistance of famed local horticulturist Luther Burbank.

Mildred Veitch

Anna Mildred Veitch B.A. (1889 – 1971) was the last member of the Veitch family of horticulturists to manage the family business of Veitch Nurseries.

Movement for Compassionate Living

MCL cite John Woolman, Mahatma Gandhi, Tom Regan, Robert Hart, Helen and Scott Nearing, Richard St. Barbe Baker, Adele Curtis and Henry Bailey Stevens as examples of compassionate living individuals.

Samuel Parsons

Samuel Bowne Parsons Sr. was an accomplished and well noted horticulturist, who was the first to import Japanese Maples and propagate rhododendrons.

Slow gardening

Slow gardening, which is an attitude, not a “how-to” checklist of things to do or not do, was started by American horticulturist and garden author Felder Rushing, who was inspired by Slow Food, an international movement founded in the 1980s by Italian activist Carlo Petrini.

Stefan Franczak

Stefan Franczak (August 3, 1917, Jeziorna, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland — 2009) was a Polish Jesuit monk and horticulturist, famous as a clematis breeder.

Tasmannia stipitata

The culinary quality of T. stipitata was recognized in the mid-1980s by horticulturist Peter Hardwick, who gave it the name 'Dorrigo pepper', and Jean-Paul Bruneteau, then chef at Rowntrees Restaurant, Sydney.

The Veitch Memorial Medal

Michael Nelson for his outstanding practical work over many years in the restoration of the Lost Gardens of Heligan, one of Cornwall's best-known tourist attractions.

Thomas Garnett

Tommy Garnett (1915–2006), English and Australian headmaster, horticulturist, ornithologist, cricketer and author

Tim Crowther

Alongside his other career interests, Tim has partnered with popular horticulturist Joe Maiden for the past 15 years, and the two have developed a formula for a light hearted gardening programme (Tim and Joe, BBC Radio Leeds, Sunday 9am - noon).

Tommy Garnett

Thomas Ronald Garnett OAM (1 January 1915 –22 September 2006) was an English and Australian headmaster, horticulturist, ornithologist and author.

Ulmus 'Louis van Houtte'

The cultivar is named for the Belgian horticulturist and plant collector Louis Benoit van Houtte, 1810 - 1876.

W. Kordes' Söhne

Wilhelm Kordes I (born 1865 in Holstein, Germany, died 1935 in Klein Offenseth-Sparrieshoop) was a German horticulturist.

William Francis Whitman, Jr.

William F. Whitman Jr., a self-taught horticulturist who became renowned for collecting rare tropical fruits from around the world and popularizing them in the United States, died Wednesday at his home in Bal Harbour, Florida.

William Prince

William Prince (horticulturist) (1766-1842), New York City horticulturist and father of horticulturist William Robert Prince


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