Women in Horticulture

This blog about gardener, civil rights activist, and poet Anne Spencer invites you to dig deeper into her life and find out more about...

Founded in 1911, the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women (PSHW) was one of the first schools of its kind in the nation. Its...

Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 – 1977) was born into a sharecropping family in Mississippi and become a leader in civil rights. She established a...

Although she was born into slavery in Georgia in 1829, Carrie Steele was one of the first black landowners in Atlanta and left behind a...

Jane Colder is now known as America's first female Botanist, but it would take more than a century after her death for the recognition.

Gertrude Jekyll’s passion and background in art set her up perfectly to make history. Born in London in 1843, Jekyll grew up on her...

My great-grandmother was a woman who persevered in the face of family tragedy and challenging economic circumstances. Frances Vaughan...

It took some sleuthing to find this Historic Woman (not of Horticulture) of Botany, but I found her! Marie Clark Taylor (1911-1990) was...

“I suppose that if you have a rapport with growing things, it just makes you happy that there is so much of it —even the grass that grows...

I do not have children so it may seem strange that I do have an extensive collection of garden and nature books for children. Mostly they...

1924-2006 | United Kingdom Guest Blogger, Martha Keen, has written the piece below about the dynamic Historic Woman in Hort, Valerie...

Hi there! For those of you that do not know me, my name is Rachel Burlington and I live in Portland, Oregon. Before I moved here last...

During conversations about women in horticulture, someone always asks "What famous women in horticulture do you know?" This is usually...