Susanna Bixby Bryant

Susanna Bixby Bryant (April 11, 1880 – October 2, 1946) was an American horticulturalist, rancher, botanical collector and the founder of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, California, the largest botanic garden in the state that houses California native plants.

Early life and education Born on April 11, 1880, in Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California, United States, Susanna Bixby Bryant was the daughter of John William Bixby and Susan Patterson Hathaway. During her childhood, she resided at her family home in the Rancho Los Alamitos. In 1927, Bryant established, in memory of her father, a native garden on family's Cañon de Santa Ana ranch in Orange County, California to preserve California's native plants and to showcase garden areas designed to assemble native plants in to the communities with which they occur in nature.

Membership Bryant was the member of the California Historical Society and the Garden Club of America.

Personal life Bryant married Dr. Ernest A. Bryant, born in Canada, who was the personal physician of American railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington and lived in Los Angeles. They had two children.

Death Bryant died on October 2, 1946, in Santa Barbara, California.