Lynden B. Miller

Lynden B. Miller is a public garden designer in New York City and the Director of The Conservatory Garden in Central Park, which she rescued and restored beginning in l982. Based on her belief that good public open spaces can change city life, she has designed many other gardens and parks in all five boroughs since that time. She is the author of Parks, Plants and People: Beautifying the Urban Landscape, (Norton, 2009), which won the 2010 National Book Award of the American Horticultural Society. Her design work in gardens and parks in New York City in all five boroughs includes Bryant Park, The New York Botanical Garden, Wagner Park in Battery Park City, and Madison Square Park. She has designed landscape improvements to the campuses at Columbia, Stony Brook on Long Island, Princeton, and Hunter College and plantings for the garden at the Museum of Modern Art. She was part of a team who designed landscape and gardens for the United States Supreme Court. Her large new garden in Chelsea Cover for the Hudson River Park Trust opened in May, 2010. She redesigned the plantings for the British Garden in Hanover Square and is presently reinvigorating the Heather Garden in Fort Tryon Park. Miller was trained as a painter and studied horticulture at The New York Botanical Garden before beginning her public career. She is on the Board of Trustees of the Central Park Conservancy, New Yorkers for Parks, and the New York Botanical Garden.