Horticulturist

🇺🇸George Harrison

Music

1943–2001

"If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there"

🇺🇸Francis Parkman

Literature

1823–1893

"The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?"

🇬🇧Gertrude Jekyll

Art

1843–1932

"To devise these living pictures with simple well-known flowers seems to me to be the best thing to do in gardening."

🇬🇧Harold Nicolson

Politics

Bloomsbury Group

1886–1968

"Dr Johnson is the only conversationalist who triumphs over time."

"All that we can say, looking at the avocado pit, is that whatever swallowed it must have been big. As big as those fossil skeletons staring out at us from behind the dusty glass of museum cases."

🇬🇧Vita Sackville-West

Literature

Bloomsbury Group

1892–1962

"Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this."

🇺🇸Henry A. Wallace

Politics

1888–1965

"The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.."

🇬🇧William Shenstone

Literature

1714–1763

"Complete text, with annotations, of Shenstone's Unconnected Thoughts on Gardening"

🇬🇧John Evelyn

Literature

1620–1706

"He was universally belov'd, Hospitable, Generous, Learned in many things, skill'd in Musick, a very greate Cherisher of Learned men of whom he had the conversation."