Gardener 12726 221117420 2008-06-23T03:14:33Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other {{Mergeto|Gardening|date=April 2008}} {{Horticulture and Gardening}} A '''gardener''' is any person involved in the growing and maintenance of plants, notably in a [[garden]]. The term encompasses persons from different walks of life involved in [[gardening]], arguably the oldest occupation, from the [[hobbyist]] in a [[residential garden]], the homeowner supplementing the family food with a small [[vegetable garden]] or [[orchard]], to an employee in a [[nursery]] or the [[head gardener]] in a [[great house|large estate]], or a garden laborer. The term gardener is also used to describe [[garden design]]ers and [[landscape gardener]]s, who are involved chiefly in the design of gardens, rather than the practical aspects of [[horticulture]]. [[History of gardening|Gardening has a long history]], and there have been many [[History of gardening#Historic gardeners|pioneering gardeners]] of note, from the great landscape gardeners of the 18th century, to those who created or expanded the idea of the [[No-dig gardening|"no-dig" garden]]. In addition, television [[lifestyle programs]] have spawned a number of [[celebrity gardener]]s. == Notable gardeners == * [[Luis Barragan]] * [[Geoffrey Bawa]] * [[Capability Brown|Lancelot "Capability" Brown]] * [[Carolus Clusius]] * [[Esther Dean]] * [[Charlie Dimmock]] * [[A. J. Downing]] * [[Ian Hamilton Finlay]] * [[Bob Flowerdew]] * [[Pippa Greenwood]] * [[C. Z. Guest]] * [[Robert Hart (forest gardener)|Robert Hart]] * [[Michael Heseltine]] * [[Hotsukimaru]] * [[Derek Jarman]] * [[Thomas Jefferson]] * [[Gertrude Jekyll]] * [[William Kent]] * [[Andre le Notre]] * [[Peter Joseph Lenné]] * [[Lucullus]] * [[Ihei Masatake]] * [[John Beverley Nichols]] * [[Frederick Law Olmsted]] * [[Ozcar]] * [[Russell Page]] * [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] * [[Humphrey Repton]] * [[William Robinson (gardener)|William Robinson]] * [[Ihei Sannojo]] * [[Vita Sackville-West]] * [[William Shenstone]] * [[Geoffrey Smith]] * [[King Solomon]] * [[Theophrastus]] * [[Percy Thrower]] * [[Tiberius]] * [[Alan Titchmarsh]] * [[John Tradescant]] * [[Edith Wharton]] * [[Albert Wilson]] ==See also== {{Wiktionary}} * [[Gardner]], a surname * [[Museum of Garden History]] [[Category:Gardeners| ]] [[Category:Gardening| ]] [[Category:Occupations]] [[ca:Jardiner]] [[da:Gartner]] [[de:Gärtner]] [[fr:Jardinier]] [[he:גנן]] [[mk:Градинар]] [[nl:Hovenier]] [[ja:庭師]]