Ina Higgins
Ina Higgins was one of the first women to enrol at the Burnley Horticultural College in Melbourne in 1899, receiving her Certificate of Competency in 1900. She subsequently had a lengthy career as a distinguished landscape gardener.
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Jean Stevens
Horticulturalist who registered some 391 iris hybrids in her lifetime.
Eliza Scidmore
Eliza Scidmore traveled through Alaska’s Inside Passage in 1883. Her articles and travel logs shared the grandeur and adventure of Alaska with western tourists, ushering in a new era of travel and tourism to the Alaska territory.
Beatrix Farrand
Beatrix Farrand was an acclaimed landscape gardener whose designs can still be enjoyed in many cultivated spaces today. Among the existing examples of her work are the terraced garden rooms of Dumbarton Oaks, and the carriage roads of Acadia National Park. She also worked with both Ellen and Edith Wilson to design a First Lady’s Garden for the East Wing of the White House.
Martha King
Martha King was New Zealand’s first resident botanical artist.
Elizabeth Mary Gilmer
New Zealand social worker, educationist and horticulturist
Edna Walling
One of Australia’s most highly regarded twentieth-century garden designers and writers.
Katharine Plunkett
Irish botanical and landscape painter
Katherine Kane
Irish botanist and horticulturist
Jean O’Neill
Irish plantswoman and horticulturalist