Elsa Bakalar

Elsa Bakalar
Elsa Bakalar
Born	1919; England
Died	January 30, 2010 (aged 90–91); Northampton, Massachusetts
Occupation	Garden designer
Known for	A Garden of One's Own

Elsa Bakalar (1919 – 29 January 2010) was an English-born American garden designer,^[1] best known for her 1994 book A Garden of One's Own.

Bakalar's work has been featured in Horticulture Magazine,

Gourmet Magazine. Starting in the 1950s, she worked for many years as a teacher in New York City at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, first as a grade school teacher at Midtown (in Manhattan), then at the high school in Riverdale. She retired from teaching in 1977 and moved to Heath, Massachusetts

with her husband Michael to devote herself full-time to gardening.

Published works

Elsa Bakalar, Portrait of a Gardener [video] (OCLC 29672896, Images, 1993)[2]
A Garden of One's Own (
ISBN 0-688-12145-4
; Morrow, 1994)

References

^ Stocker, Carol (1990-08-10). "Green-thumb guru sows the seeds of learning". Boston Globe.
^ Stocker, Carol (1993-05-20). "Horticulture help on videotape". Boston Globe.

External links

"My Friend Elsa" by Pat Leuchtman

[1] Stocker, Carol (1990-08-10). "Green-thumb guru sows the seeds of learning". Boston Globe.

[2] Stocker, Carol (1993-05-20). "Horticulture help on videotape". Boston Globe.

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