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Gordon Ford (1918–1999) was an Australian landscape designer who created rugged gardens which were noted to be of a distinctly Australian style. After returning from service in New Guinea in WWII, he settled near
Montsalvat Montsalvat is an artists' community in Eltham, Victoria, Eltham, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Established by Justus Jorgensen in 1934, the colony is set among gardens on five hectares (12 acres) of land, and is home to dozens of bu ...
, where he dug out a site and built a house made out of mud bricks from the clay. Ford worked closely with British architect Alistair Knox. He trained as a landscape gardener with
Ellis Stones Ellis Andrew Stones (1 October 1895 – 9 April 1975) was an Australian landscape architect of private and public gardens—many displaying naturalistic rockwork—and a conservationist whose work and ideas influenced approaches to public lands ...
. In the last years of his life he trained landscape designer Sam Cox.


Books

* Gordon Ford: The Natural Australian Garden, Gordon & Gwen Ford (Bloomings Books) * Australian Garden Design, Ellis Stones (Macmillan) * Capability Brown, Dorothy Shroud (Faber)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ford, Gordon Australian landscape architects 1918 births 1999 deaths Australian Army personnel of World War II 20th-century Australian architects Australian Army soldiers