|
Pitcairnia Poortmanii
''Pitcairnia poortmanii'' is a species of flowering plant in the Bromeliaceae family. It is Native plant, native to Ecuador. References * Pitcairnia, poortmanii Flora of Ecuador Taxa named by Édouard André {{Pitcairnia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édouard André
Édouard François AndrĂ© (17 July 1840 – 25 October 1911) was a French horticulturalist, landscape designer, as well as a leading landscape architect of the late 19th century, famous for designing city parks and public spaces in Lithuania, Monte Carlo and Montevideo. Biography Born into a family of nurserymen in Bourges, Cher, Édouard AndrĂ© assisted Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps in 1860, at the age of twenty, and participated in the redesign of the city of Paris in cooperation with Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand and Georges-Eugène Haussmann. Eventually he was appointed Head Gardener (''Jardinier Principal'') of Paris. During eight years of public service he designed and planted many public spaces, including the Parc des Buttes Chaumont and Tuileries Gardens. His international career was launched in 1866, when he won the competition to design Sefton Park in Liverpool. During his life AndrĂ© designed around a hundred public and private landscape parks, mainly in Europe: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |