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Beth Chatto

British garden designer and author

Died when: 94 years 320 days (1138 months)
Star Sign: Cancer

 

Beth Chatto

Beth Chatto OBE VMH (27 June 1923 – 13 May 2018) was an English plantswoman, garden designer and author known for creating and describing the Beth Chatto Gardens near Elmstead Market in the English county of Essex.

She wrote several books about gardening under specific conditions and lectured on this in Britain, North America, Australia, the Netherlands and Germany.

Her principle of placing the right plant in the right place drew on her husband Andrew Chatto's lifelong research into garden-plant origins.

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