Pioneering garden designer Ellen Shipman impacted WNY

Ellen Biddle Shipman Photo courtesy Graycliff Ellen Shipman in the early 1920s at her home in New York City. Photo courtesy Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library by Connie Oswald Stofko She was known as the greatest garden maker in America. Ellen Biddle Shipman “trained herself in her own garden for 15 years, which so many of us can identify with,” said Rebecca Allan, garden designer. By 1910, Shipman was becoming prominent as a landscape designer—in a…

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