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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, 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.

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

1. Ford, Gordon Ford with Gwen (1999). Gordon Ford : the natural Australian garden. Hawthorn, Vic.: Bloomings Books. ISBN 9781876473099. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
2. Jones, Philip. "Gordon Ford". Landscape designers. Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 17 March 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
3. Woodhouse, Fay. "Knox, Alistair Samuel (1912–1986)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
4. Latreille, Anne (1990). The natural garden : Ellis Stones - his life and work. Ringwood, Victoria, Australia: O'Neil. ISBN 0-670-90235-7.
5. Cox, Sam. "Portfolio Design Bio". samcoxlandscape. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
6. Zable, Arnold (30 April 2012). "Gardener the 'beating heart' of Eltham". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 May 2015.

• Australian landscape architects
• 1918 births
• 1999 deaths
• Australian Army personnel of World War II
• 20th-century Australian architects
• Australian Army soldiers