Lanning Roper

Lanning Roper (4 February, 1912 – 22 March, 1983) was an American landscape architect and writer who studied and lived in England.

Life

Born in West Orange, New Jersey, Roper received an honors degree in Fine Arts from Harvard University in 1933.

He served in the US Navy in World War II, and was in charge of Division 67 on D-Day.

Work

Roper had many garden commissions all over England, and some in Ireland (including Castlemartin), France, Italy, Switzerland and the United States. He was commissioned as Prince Charles' landscape gardener in 1981 to do the grounds at Highgrove House in the Cotswolds.

Publications

Roper wrote seven books, including "The gardens in the Royal park at Windsor" and " On gardens and gardening".

Memories

The Lanning Roper Memorial Garden at the Trinity Hospice on Clapham Common, London, was originally designed by Lanning and constructed after his death. The woodland walk at the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois now bears Lanning's name, and at Scotney Castle in Lamberhurst, Kent in England, a streamside walk is dedicated to Lanning's memory.

Death

Lanning Roper died in Paddington, London, and his ashes were scattered over the gardens at Scotney Castle.

cholarship

A book about Lanning Roper titled "Lanning Roper and his Gardens" was written by Jane Brown in 1987.

External links

* [http://www.roperld.com/roperlanning.htm Lanning Roper, Gardener Extraordinaire]
* [http://www.myclapham.co.uk/clapham/community-trinity-hospice.htm Lanning Roper Memorial Garden, Trinity Hospice]
* [http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/farnsworth Farnsworth House]