Judith Tankard

Teaches at New York Botanical Garden

Judith B. Tankard is a landscape historian specializing in British and American gardens. She is the author of eight books, including Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes and The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman. She has taught at the Landscape Institute at Harvard University and was a board member of the Beatrix Farrand Society for 10 years. In 2013 she organized a seminar on the preservation of Farrand's gardens. In 2000 she was awarded a Gold Medal by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.