Lynden B. Miller

Member since: 2010

Proposed by: Millbrook Garden Club, Zone III

Lynden Miller is legendary for her vision and advocacy in turning barren public city spaces into lovely gardens and social venues. Her reputation for garden restoration and international recognition as a public garden designer date to her work in the Conservatory Garden in New York's Central Park in the 1980s. She then moved on to major design and planting projects at The New York Botanical Garden, Madison Square Park and Bryant Park to name just a few. After 9/11 she organized thousands of volunteers to plant bulbs around the city's fire stations and parks. This activity, known as The Daffodil Project, still occurs each fall and has spread to other cities. To paraphrase her motivating belief, "make it beautiful and they will come; keep it that way and they will contribute."

In 2009 Lynden Miller published Parks, Plants and People, winner of the 2010 American Horticultural Society Book Award. This book now in its second printing addresses the elements of creating and maintaining beautiful public spaces. Her primary areas of interest include: *Public Garden Design *Beautification of Urban Spaces * Garden Landscaping and Management and * Painting and Horticulture.

Honorary Member since 2010.