Gardeners Are Also Famous!

A Gardener can be defined as a "person involved in the growing and maintenance of plants, notably in a garden. The terms encompasses persons from different walks of life involved in gardening, arguably the oldest profession, from the hobbyist in a residential garden, the homeowner supplementing the family food with a small vegetable garden or orchard, to a worker engaged in maintaining greenery for money or the head gardener in a large estate."

Gardening is an art and requires some special skills and of course, a 'green thumb'. Professional gardeners are those who have acquired such skills through practice, and a personal interest, to the extent which enables them to earn their living by selling these skills.

Pioneers in gardening were the gardeners of the 18th century, and today’s gardeners add to their treasure-trove of expertise with innovative gardening ideas like acreating a ‘no-dig’ kind of garden.

Famous Gardeners

Gardeners often are good writers, writing exclusively about the field of gardening. They share their experiences and experiments and have published valuable gardening tips, ideas and advice. Following are some of the celebrity gardeners listed alongwith with their publications :

Matt James
‘The City Gardener’, ‘The City Gardener : Urban Oasis’, ‘The City Garden
Bible’ etc.

Beverley Nicholas
‘Down the Garden Path’.

Alan Titchmarsh
‘The Complete How to Be a Gardener’, ‘The Complete Supergardener’, ‘Royal
Gardeners’, ‘Alan Titchmarsh - the Gardener's Year’, ‘Trowel and Error’ etc.

Chris Beardshaw
‘The Natural gardener’, ‘Hidden Gardens’ etc.

Joe Swift
‘The Plant Room’.

Rachel De Thame
‘Gardening with the Experts’, ‘Small Town Gardens’, ‘Rachel de Thame's Top 100 Star Plants’, ‘Gardening in Small Spaces’ and more.

Margaret Cadwaladr
‘In Veronica's Garden’.

Monty Don
‘Fork to Fork’, ‘Gardeners' World - Gardening from Berryfields’, ‘The
Weekend Gardener’, ‘The Jewel Garden’, ‘My Roots : A Decade in the Garden’,
‘The Complete Gardener’ etc.

Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy
‘A Year in Our Gardens : Letters by Nancy Goodwin and Allen Lacy’.

Margery Fish
‘We Made a Garden’.

Starr Ockenga
‘Earth on Her Hands.’

Not only in print, many gardeners today host gardening shows on television as well. Some such gardeners are - Chris Beardshaw, Monty Don, Joe Swift, Alan Titchmarsh, Rachel De Thame, Matt James etc. And such one show is – The ‘Green’ TV Series, hosted by Robert Redford.

Women Gardeners

V.Sackville, Gertrude Jekyll, Lester Walling, Elizabeth Von Arnim, Lester Rowntree are a few famous women gardeners. These ladies were all passionate about gardening and they are known to do gardening in a soft, romantic and feminine style. Summarising the personalities of these women gardeners, "Unlike traditional home-makers; these gardeners dressed in a masculine way, dared to take a physical gardening labor, and were unbiased to gender-differences."

A quote from Gay Klok, a Tasmanian gardener, “I gave up politics for gardening. My plants never answer me back, just give their all to me with small expectations and happily all year long.”

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