Beatrix Farrand
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Beatrix Cadwalader Farrand was an American landscape gardener and landscape architect. Her career included commissions to design about 110 gardens for private residences, estates and country homes, pu
The Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden in the New York Botanical Garden. The garden layout, including the design for a central iron-lattice gazebo and surrounding fence, was created by Beatrix Farrand in 1916. Due to iron shortages during World War I, construction of the gazebo and the fence was not completed, and the whole design was later forgotten. In the mid-1980s, NYBG Board member Beth Strauss rediscovered Farrand's original plans. David Rockefeller donated $1 million for the completion of Farrand's design, and the garden, including the gazebo and the fence, was finally realized in 1988. It was named the "Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden" after David's wife,
Fountain at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., site of her best known garden design
Margaret Rockefeller
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Margaret "Peggy" McGrath Rockefeller was a founding member of two land conservation organizations: the Maine Coast Heritage Trust in 1970 and the American Farmland Trust which was formed in 1980 as a
Peggy Rockefeller plaque at Stone Barns Center
