Background
Stephen Anderton was born on March 5, 1955, in England, United Kingdom. He is a son of William L. and Winnifred J. (Waddington) Anderton. His father was a headmaster and his mother was a teacher.
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Throughout history great gardeners have risen from all walks of life. Some have been aristocratic amateur gardeners, others professional designers with an international practice. Some have come to garden-making from sister arts such as sculpture or painting; some have been hands-on nurserymen or botanists. What they all have in common, no matter where or when they were born, is the ability to take an idea and develop it in a new manner relevant to their times. The book contains four sections. ‘Gardens of Ideas’ moves from the politically allusive gardens of 18th-century England made by men such as William Kent, to Charles Jencks’s Scottish garden inspired by 21st-century cosmography.
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Stephen Anderton was born on March 5, 1955, in England, United Kingdom. He is a son of William L. and Winnifred J. (Waddington) Anderton. His father was a headmaster and his mother was a teacher.
In 1976 Stephen graduated from University of Birmingham and recieved B.A. (with honors).
Stephen served as national gardens manager in English Heritage (government organization). He edited the revision of The Oxford Companion to Gardens.
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Quotations: "I was a professional gardener for twenty years, until I was asked to write about gardening. I found that I enjoyed it, and now I write for a living and garden practically only for myself. I write simply to pass on the pleasure and sometimes amusement which gardening gives to me, as a plantsman, a designer, and a writer."
He is the member of Garden History Society, Garden Writers Guild and a vice-chairperson of the Garden Writers of America.
Stephen married to Judith Symonds, a librarian, on July 31, 1976. They have three children: Eleanor, Rosamund, Olivia.