Browse by Contribution

Women contributed to garden history in many different ways. Some designed landscapes, some hunted plants across continents, some recorded the natural world through illustration, and some changed how we think about gardening through their writing. Explore these contributions by category.

Garden Designers & Landscape ArchitectsFrom Gertrude Jekyll's herbaceous borders to Kathryn Gustafson's landforms.
Plant Hunters & CollectorsThe women who risked everything to bring back new species.
Botanical IllustratorsScientific accuracy meets artistic mastery.
Garden Writers & AuthorsThe pen shaped the garden as much as the spade.
Medicinal & Botanical PioneersFrom herbalism to early systematic botany.
Organic & Ecological PioneersChampions of working with nature.