Sylvia Crowe

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Dame Sylvia Crowe, DBE (1901 – 1997) was a British landscape architect and garden designer.^[1]^[2]

Born in Sussex, and trained under Madeline Agar at Swanley College (later absorbed into Hadlow College, which continues to teach University of Greenwich courses in garden design). She was President of the Institute of Landscape Architects (later the Landscape Institute) from 1957 to 1959 and made important contributions to landscape planning for new towns, roads, forestry and the landscape of power. Among her notable projects is the roof garden for the Scottish Widows building in Edinburgh, implemented using native Scottish plants. ^{[citation needed]}

In the mid-20th century [Lower Lower Soughton Hall] at Northop in Flintshire belonged to the Gray family. In 1972 Stephen Alexander Reith Gray was Flintshire High Sheriff and Chief Executive of Shotton Steelworks. He commissioned Dame Sylvia Crowe and Raymond Cutbush to redesign the gardens and they remain much as they look today, with formal and informal features which includes herbaceous borders, yew hedges and island beds with mixed planting.

References

↑ "BBC - Gardening - Design - Modern". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 15 October 2008.
↑ Hal Moggridge, ‘Crowe, Dame Sylvia (1901–1997)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/67305, accessed 8 October 2010]

Authority control	VIAF: 120385826 ISNI: 0000 0001 1612 3353 SUDOC: 120792982

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Name	Crowe, Sylvia
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Short description	British landscape architect and garden designer
Date of birth	1901
Place of birth	Sussex, England, UK
Date of death	1997
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