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Women and Gardens: A History from the Victorian Era to Today
Judith M. Taylor’s Women and Gardens highlights the depth and breadth of women’s influence on gardens and landscapes in the last two hundred years and reveals many unknown or intentionally ignored facts concerning the roles of women in gardening and their contributions to horticultural science. Over eight chapters that investigate the obstacles and opportunities women have encountered in gardening, this book explores the history of women in horticulture, landscape design, and ornamental plant breeding from the Victorian era to today.
ACCLAIM
“‘Women hold up half the sky’—so the saying goes. But they have almost certainly done more than half the weeding, watering, and digging. This book will certainly help set the record straight, revealing and documenting the contribution of countless women through garden history.”—Noel Kingsbury, author of Garden The Natural and Cultural History of the Plants in Your Garden
“Judith M. Taylor is, without doubt, recognized internationally as today’s foremost horticultural historian. Her body of work ranges across a wide spectrum of horticultural facets. In all her work Judith is relentless in seeking information, irrespective of the language in which it is recorded. Her latest book, Women and Gardens, is especially timely as long-term gender bias, in all fields of endeavor, is being challenged throughout the western world. Judith demonstrates and records conclusively that despite earlier bias, many women have indeed made significant and lasting contributions to ornamental horticulture worldwide for a long time.”—Keith Hammett, past president of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Judith M. Taylor is the author of The Olive in History of an Immigrant Tree; The Global Migrations of Ornamental How the World Got into Your Garden; Tangible Californians and Their Gardens, 1800–1950; and Visions of Great Flower Breeders of the Past.
ACCLAIM
“‘Women hold up half the sky’—so the saying goes. But they have almost certainly done more than half the weeding, watering, and digging. This book will certainly help set the record straight, revealing and documenting the contribution of countless women through garden history.”—Noel Kingsbury, author of Garden The Natural and Cultural History of the Plants in Your Garden
“Judith M. Taylor is, without doubt, recognized internationally as today’s foremost horticultural historian. Her body of work ranges across a wide spectrum of horticultural facets. In all her work Judith is relentless in seeking information, irrespective of the language in which it is recorded. Her latest book, Women and Gardens, is especially timely as long-term gender bias, in all fields of endeavor, is being challenged throughout the western world. Judith demonstrates and records conclusively that despite earlier bias, many women have indeed made significant and lasting contributions to ornamental horticulture worldwide for a long time.”—Keith Hammett, past president of the Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Judith M. Taylor is the author of The Olive in History of an Immigrant Tree; The Global Migrations of Ornamental How the World Got into Your Garden; Tangible Californians and Their Gardens, 1800–1950; and Visions of Great Flower Breeders of the Past.
216 pages, Paperback
Published April 15, 2025
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