Richard Bisgrove
Author of The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll
About the Author
Richard Bisgrove is the director of the Landscape Management degree course at Reading University
Works by Richard Bisgrove
Associated Works
The Illustrated Gertrude Jekyll: Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden (1988) — Preface — 100 copies, 3 reviews
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Bisgrove, Richard
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Michigan State University (MLA|1969)
University of Reading (BSc) - Occupations
- landscape architect
professor
horticultural scientist - Organizations
- University of Reading
Garden History Society - Awards and honors
- Veitch Memorial Medal (2004)
Peter Youngman Award (2010)
Honorary Fellow, Kew Guild (2009) - Short biography
- Richard Bisgrove recently retired as Course Director in Landscape Management at the University of Reading. He has a BSc in Horticultural Science from Reading University and an MLA in Landscape Architecture from Michigan. He served on the National Trust’s Gardens Panel for nearly twenty years and has held several posts in the Garden History Society. In 2004 he was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society for ‘outstanding contribution to horticultural education, garden design and plant research’ and in 2010 the President of the Landscape Institute conferred on him the Peter Youngman Award for ‘outstanding contribution to landscape’. He lectures internationally and has written several books on garden design and garden history.
- Nationality
- UK
- Associated Place (for map)
- UK
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- Works
- 13
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 255
- Popularity
- #89,876
- Rating
- 4.3
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 25
- Languages
- 4