Grace Tabor

Ina Grace Tabor (24 March 1874 – 15 October 1971) was an American landscape architect, designer, writer, and editor. She was one of the first women to identify herself professionally as a landscape architect. She is best known as the author on the subjects of landscape design and horticulture. She is the author of ten garden books, most of which were published between 1910 and 1921.

Personal life and education Grace Tabor was born on 24 March 1874 in Cuba, New York. She studied at the Arts Students League and the New York School of Applied Design for Women both in New York.

Tabor spent most of her adult life in the New York City area.

In 1923 Tabor as a landscape architect was asked by the Woman’s Home Companion magazine to establish a Garden Department in this magazine and to work part-time as its editor. She began a garden column for the magazine that ran until 1941. Through the Woman’s Home Companion, which was at the time among the most influential women’s magazines in the country, Tabor reached a wide audience. Writing for Woman’s Home Companion Gabor was considered the doyenne of a cluster of female advice-givers on the subject.

Tabor authored ten garden books, most of which were published between 1910 and 1921.

She was also an editor of The National Plant, Flower & Fruit Guild Magazine.

Publications

1911 – The landscape gardening book, wherein are set down the simple laws of beauty and utility which should guide the development of all grounds 1911 – The garden primer; a practical handbook on the elements of gardening for beginners 1912 – Making a garden to bloom this year 1912 – Making the grounds attractive with shrubs 1912 – Making the grounds attractive with shrubbery 1912 – Making a bulb garden 1913 – Old-Fashioned gardening; a history and a reconstruction 1913 – Suburban gardens 1916 – Wonderdays and wonderways through flowerland; a summer adventure of once upon a time 1921 – Come into the garden 1934 – Herbs in cooking 1951 – Making a garden of perennials