Gordon and Mary Hayward: Photo by John Hession
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Gordon and Mary Hayward
Gordon has been designing gardens professionally from his home in southern Vermont since 1985 with particular emphasis on gardens in the Northeast, as well as the Eastern Shore of Maryland, though he does work nationwide. Hayward is self-taught – his classrooms stretched across the gardens of England and America.
He is also a nationally recognized garden writer and lecturer, having lectured in forty states. He wrote for Horticulture Magazine for 25 years and lectured with the magazine on nine multi-city lecture tours with four other designers across America.
Hayward and his wife Mary, who grew up in the North Cotswold Hills of England, have been developing a 1 1/2 acre garden around their 220-year-old farmhouse in southern Vermont for the past thirty-five years. Their garden is registered in the searchable Archives of American Gardens at The Smithsonian Institution. It has also been the subject of articles in such magazines such as Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Martha Stewart Living.
In 2019, Hayward was named an honorary member of The Garden Club of America.