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- In his teenage years, he derived an interest in garden design; a passion which he was able to actively pursue helping his family create a cottage garden at their property in Wragby. At seventeen, he undertook a professional apprenticeship in the art of garden composition.
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Montague Russell Page OBE (1 November 1906 – 4 January 1985) was a British gardener, garden designer and landscape architect. He worked in the UK, western Europe and the United States of America.
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Jan 3, 2006 · Russell Page studied at the Slade School of Art in London and Paris before his passion for plants led to a career as a professional garden designer in 1928. In 1935, Russell Page went into partnership with Geoffrey Jellicoe although they became good friends, the partnership didn’t work for financial reasons.
Apr 22, 2020 · In 1962, he authored an autobiography, The Education of a Gardener (reissued by Viking Press in 1983), chronicling his most notable work to that point and now considered one of the most beloved books about plants and landscape design.
Oct 27, 2023 · In 1985, the year Page died, a young landscape designer named Chris Baines introduced his ‘wildlife garden’ at the Chelsea Flower Show. In the midst of a festival known for elaborate, expensive floral displays, Baines used common, native plants to draw in pollinators and songbirds.
Jan 8, 2011 · Page’s The Education of a Gardener is probably the most influential 20th-century book on garden design. He was a gardener in the broadest sense of the word; he understood all the disciplines that are necessary to create a satisfactory space around a house.
Russell Page (1906-1985) was a renowned British garden designer whose geographic reach and high-profile clientele distinguished him as one of the foremost landscape designers of the 20th...
His education at Slade laid the foundation for his future endeavors in garden design. Formative Years: Page's career took a significant turn when, in the 1920s, he worked under the tutelage of the esteemed horticulturist and designer Gertrude Jekyll.
