{"id":10796,"date":"2011-09-12T02:16:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T09:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10796"},"modified":"2011-10-17T05:20:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:20:24","slug":"a-top-100-gardeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/a-top-100-gardeners\/","title":{"rendered":"A Top 100 Gardeners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 100 Top Gardeners<\/p>\n

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  1. Gertrude Jekyll<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Beth Chatto <\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Alan Titchmarsh <\/a> or biography<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Clements Tony <\/a> The Reverend Tony Clements established the African Violet Centre in Norfolk,<\/li>\n
  5. Geoff Hamilton<\/a> or biography<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Stefan Buczacki <\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Charlie Dimmock<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. William Robinson<\/li>\n
  9. Alan & Adrian Bloom<\/li>\n
  10. Alan Wade<\/li>\n
  11. Anna Pavord<\/li>\n
  12. Anne Swithenbank<\/li>\n
  13. Bob Flowerdew<\/li>\n
  14. David Burges
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    Top Gardeners 15-100+<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  15. Dr Stefan Buczacki<\/li>\n
  16. Hugh Johnson<\/li>\n
  17. John Cushnie<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. Roy Lancaster<\/li>\n
  19. Arthur Billitt<\/li>\n
  20. Augustus Smith<\/li>\n
  21. Bill Sowerbutts<\/li>\n
  22. Helen Yemm\u00c2\u00a0 Daily Telegraph gardener<\/li>\n
  23. Brian Langdon<\/li>\n
  24. Bridget Moody<\/li>\n
  25. Bunny Guinness<\/li>\n
  26. C W J Unwin<\/li>\n
  27. Carol Klein<\/li>\n
  28. Carole Baxter<\/li>\n
  29. Chris Beardshaw<\/li>\n
  30. Christopher Lloyd<\/li>\n
  31. Clay Jones<\/li>\n
  32. Daphne Ledwood<\/li>\n
  33. David Bellamy<\/li>\n
  34. David Hicks<\/li>\n
  35. David Jones<\/li>\n
  36. David Roland<\/li>\n
  37. Deborah Kellaway<\/li>\n
  38. Diarmuid Gavin\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Garden designer, TV host of Homefront in the Garden<\/li>\n
  39. Dr D.G. Hessayon\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Expert series of books<\/li>\n
  40. Dr Shewell-Coopers<\/li>\n
  41. Duchese of Northumberland<\/li>\n
  42. Edward Hyams<\/li>\n
  43. Ellen Willmott<\/li>\n
  44. F R McQuown<\/li>\n
  45. Fred Downham<\/li>\n
  46. Fred Loads<\/li>\n
  47. Fred Streeter<\/li>\n
  48. Fred Whitsey<\/li>\n
  49. Gay Search<\/li>\n
  50. Geoff Stebbings<\/li>\n
  51. Geoffrey Smith<\/a><\/li>\n
  52. Geoffrey Taylor<\/li>\n
  53. Gordon Edwards<\/li>\n
  54. H G Lyall<\/li>\n
  55. H.G Hiller<\/li>\n
  56. Harry Dodson,\u00c2\u00a0 Head gardener for the BBC television show The Victorian Kitchen Garden<\/li>\n
  57. Helen Dillon<\/li>\n
  58. Inga Grimsey<\/li>\n
  59. James Russell<\/li>\n
  60. John Evelyn 1620-1706<\/a><\/li>\n
  61. Joe Swift,\u00c2\u00a0<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 BBC2’s Gardeners’ World<\/li>\n
  62. Kath Dryden<\/li>\n
  63. Keith Rushforth<\/li>\n
  64. Jekka McVicar<\/a><\/li>\n
  65. Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown<\/a><\/li>\n
  66. Lizzie Boyd also wrote The Practical Gardener<\/a> for Readers Digest<\/li>\n
  67. M Mattock<\/li>\n
  68. George Russell<\/a><\/li>\n
  69. Matthew Biggs<\/li>\n
  70. Monty Don,\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Host of BBC2’s Gardeners’ World<\/li>\n
  71. Nick Wray<\/li>\n
  72. Nigel Colborn<\/li>\n
  73. Penelope Hobhouse<\/li>\n
  74. Percy Thrower<\/li>\n
  75. Peter & Kenneth Cox\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Rhododendron experts from Glendoick<\/li>\n
  76. Peter Hunt<\/li>\n
  77. Peter Robinson<\/li>\n
  78. Pippa Greenwood, Gardeners’ Question Time<\/li>\n
  79. Prince Charles Prince of Wales<\/li>\n
  80. Prof Alan Gemmell<\/li>\n
  81. Professor Alan Gemmell<\/li>\n
  82. Robert Lane – Fox<\/li>\n
  83. Ron Ewart<\/li>\n
  84. Rosemary Verey<\/li>\n
  85. Rosie Yeomans<\/li>\n
  86. Roy Genders<\/li>\n
  87. Roy Lancaster<\/li>\n
  88. Roy Strong<\/li>\n
  89. Sarah Raven, BBC2’s Gardeners’ World<\/li>\n
  90. Sid Robertson<\/li>\n
  91. Stephan Lacey<\/li>\n
  92. Sue Minter<\/li>\n
  93. Sue Phillipps<\/li>\n
  94. Tim Smit<\/li>\n
  95. Tony Hibbert<\/li>\n
  96. Tony Russell<\/li>\n
  97. Valerie Finnis<\/li>\n
  98. Vita Sackville West<\/li>\n
  99. Christine Walkden<\/li>\n
  100. Walter Gilmore<\/li>\n
  101. Adam the Gardener – Daily Express gardening strip<\/li>\n
  102. Val Bourne<\/li>\n
  103. Tony Buckland<\/li>\n
  104. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"Japanese<\/a><\/p>\n

    How do you choose 100 Top Gardeners when the variety is so wide spread and the criteria so variable. This is just one list but I am happy to augment and modify the list so send in a comment if you want to nominate someone else. As you can see I couldn’t stick to just 100 and there are lots more I have missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    100 gardeners chosen from a large data base of professional gardeners and garden writers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-top-ten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}