It was during her visits to the family farm that she became aware of nature and all it had to offer.
Eventually she was sent to boarding school in Baltimore, Maryland and it was in these years that she did a lot of "doodling" about designing gardens.
She was at what was known as Harvard Annex, a liberal arts girls school in Cambridge, Massachusettes that she met and married Louis Shipman.
She became more involved in landscaping with the ensuing years. She and Shipman divorced in 1910 and she concentrated more on her passion of landscaping.
She landscaped many of the prestigious homes, such as Fynmere, the Cooperstown, New York of the Cooper family, Graycliff House, which was built by Frank Lloyd Wright, and numerous others.
Over her 40 year career in the gardening and landscaping world she was featured in many of the popular women's and gardening magazines of the time. She also was a very popular lecturer on her chosen profession.
It was during her visits to the family farm that she became aware of nature and all it had to offer.
Eventually she was sent to boarding school in Baltimore, Maryland and it was in these years that she did a lot of "doodling" about designing gardens.
She was at what was known as Harvard Annex, a liberal arts girls school in Cambridge, Massachusettes that she met and married Louis Shipman.
She became more involved in landscaping with the ensuing years. She and Shipman divorced in 1910 and she concentrated more on her passion of landscaping.
She landscaped many of the prestigious homes, such as Fynmere, the Cooperstown, New York of the Cooper family, Graycliff House, which was built by Frank Lloyd Wright, and numerous others.
Over her 40 year career in the gardening and landscaping world she was featured in many of the popular women's and gardening magazines of the time. She also was a very popular lecturer on her chosen profession.
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