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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]]
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