Lady Susan Jellicoe, née Pares was a plant enthusiast, writer, editor and photographer known for her collaboration with her husband, the landscape architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe.
Background
Susan Jellicoe (christened Ursula but known as Susan or Sue) was born in Liverpool, the third child of Sir Bernard Pares Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1867–1949), the historian and academic known for his work on Russia.
Education
She was educated at Saint Paul"s Girls School, Hammersmith and the Sorbonne, Paris.
Career
Her main interest was in landscape and garden design. During the war, she served in the Ministry of Information department that countered enemy propaganda. She was an honorary associate of the Landscape Institute and helped found the International Federation of Landscape Architecture ( International Federation of Library Associations).
In 1985, she was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Sheffield faculty of Landscape Architecture.
Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe wrote three books together: Modern Private Gardens (1968), Water: The Use of Water in Landscape Architecture (1971) and The Landscape of Manitoba (1975). With Lady Margery Allen she co-wrote The Things We See: Gardens (1953), The New Small Garden (1956) and Town Gardens To Live In (1977).
She was also co-author of The Oxford Companion to Gardens with Geoffrey Jellicoe, Patrick Goode and Michael Lancaster (1986). With Sylvia Crowe and Sheila Haywood, she contributed research and photographs to The Gardens of Mughal India: A History and a Guide (1972).
From 1961 to 1965, Jellicoe edited The Observer"s Gardening Panel.
She was editor of the Landscape Institute magazine Landscape Design for 20 years. 1956 Planting for Harvey"s Store Roofgarden, Guildford, Surrey
1957-1959 Planting for Water Gardens, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
1959 Planting for Cliveden, Taplow, Buckinghamshire
1980-1986 Planting for Sutton Place Garden, Surrey.