People from many fields of interest and pursuit have contributed to water gardening as we know it today. Here are some we consider the most important. Biographies on this site will open in the same window. Click your browser's "Back" to return to this page. Off-site links will open in a new window. Close it to return to this page.

Explorers, Naturalists, Collectors
	Joseph Banks Aime Bonpland Tadeáš Haenke Alexander von Humboldt Carl Linnaeus Francis Masson Eduard Poeppig Robert Schomburgk Twentieth Century Monroe Birdsey Walter Pagels

Botanists
	William T. Baxter Augustin de Candolle Henry S. Conard Charles Daubeny John Lindley Jules Emile Planchon

Hybridizers (in date order of their accomplishments)
	Joseph Paxton - 1803-1865 Eduard Ortgies 1829-1916 - German - English Carl Bouché 1809-1881 Antoine Lagrange - 1843-1921 Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac - 1830-1911 Edmund D. Sturtevant William F. Dreer - 1849-1918 William Tricker -1852-1916 James Gurney - 1831-1920 Amos Perry George H. Pring - 1885-1974

Horticulturists & Nurserymen
	Louis Van Houtte Twentieth Century Ted Uber

Horticultural Writers
	Charles Antoine Lemaire Twentieth Century Philip Swindells

Botanical Illustrators
	Walter Hood Fitch