Farrand, Beatrix (1872–1959)

US landscape architect. She designed the Memorial and Silliman College quadrangles and the Marsh Botanical Garden for Yale University. At Reef Point Gardens in Bar Harbor, Maine, she created a native flora garden, herbarium, and research library.

Born in New York City, she was the niece of US novelist Edith Wharton. She studied horticulture at the Arnold Arboretum near Boston. Along with ten other designers, she founded the American Society of Landscape Architects. Unfortunately none of her early gardens have survived, but at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington (1921–47), she transformed the Bliss family farm into a masterpiece of symmetrical design, with formal walkways leading off into planted areas, and a combination of Impressionist use of colour with formal garden beds.