Frances Perry (1907–1993)
Autor/a de Simon & Schuster's Guide to Plants and Flowers
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: Frances Mary Perry
Obres de Frances Perry
Water gardens 5 exemplars
Blumen der Welt. Mit 822 farbigen Zeichnungen von Leslie Greenwood. Großformat: 34x26 cm. (1972) 3 exemplars
The complete home guide to Gardening and Cooking (2-in-1): Gardening in Colour, and, Cookery in Colour - A picture… (1964) 3 exemplars
A complete guide to hardy perennials 2 exemplars
Shrubs and Trees for the Smaller Garden 1 exemplars
Complete Guide to Hardy Perennials 1 exemplars
How to Create a Jardin Paysan 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Perry, Frances Mary
- Data de naixement
- 1907-02-19
- Data de defunció
- 1993-10-11
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Enfield, England, UK
- Educació
- Enfield County School
Swanley Horticultural College - Professions
- horticulturist
gardening writer
gardener
columnist - Relacions
- Hay, Roy (second spouse)
- Organitzacions
- Middlesex County Council
BBC - Premis i honors
- MBE (1962)
VMM (gold, 1964)
VMH (1971)
Sara Frances Chapman Medal (Garden Club of America, 1973)
Hall of Fame Award, International Water Lily Society - Biografia breu
- Frances Perry, née Everett, was born in Enfield, England, on the outskirts of north London, where she lived most of her life. She was educated at Enfield County School and Swanley Horticultural College (now Wye College, part of the University of London).
Her love of plants was encouraged by a
famous neighbor, Edward Augustus Bowles, vice-chairman of the Council of The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). In 1927, on his recommendation, she went to work at Amos Perry's Hardy Plant Farm. In a short time, she was managing the aquatic plant department and helping create exhibits for the annual Chelsea Flower Show. In 1930, she married Perry's son Gerald, a fern specialist, with whom she had two children. She became an expert on hardy water perennials and is known particularly for her writings about them.
From 1943 to 1953, she was horticultural adviser to Middlesex County Council and later principal organizer for agricultural and horticultural education in Middlesex. In 1953 she was appointed Principal of Norwood Hall College for adult education, a position she held until 1967.
In 1966, she became a gardening writer for The Observer, taking over from Vita Sackville-West. She was named the first woman council member of the RHS in 1968, and became a vice-president of the Society in 1978.
She also was a contributor to the BBC Radio program Home Grown, and was one of the first television gardening personalities.
In addition, over her long career, Mrs. Perry wrote nearly 20 books.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 26
- Membres
- 522
- Popularitat
- #47,610
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 4
- ISBN
- 43
- Llengües
- 3