W. Gary Smith

Author, artist and landscape architect W. Gary Smith celebrates the connections between people and plants, combining art and horticulture to explore ecological design and artistic abstraction. Current landscape architecture commissions include the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Winterthur Museum and Country Estate. Recently completed work includes the Southern Highlands Reserve in Lake Toxaway, NC, the Texas Arboretum at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, conservatory gardens at Callaway Gardens in Georgia, and the Wister Rhododendron Garden at Tyler Arboretum in Pennsylvania.

He has received a Gold Medal award from the Association of Professional Landscape Designers, as well as their Award of Distinction. His work at Longwood Gardens was honored with a Design Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects.

His book From Art Into Landscape, Unleashing Creativity in Garden Design, was released by Timber Press in 2010.