Garden Club Annual Speaker: Madison Cox, Sources Of Inspiration

Madison Cox is a world-renown garden designer raised in San Francisco and Marin County, California. As a garden designer and author of books about gardens, Cox has traveled extensively across the United States, Europe and North Africa as well as Japan, China, Russia, India and Australia. For four decades he has been creating stunningly original gardens for discerning clients around the globe.
Cox’s passion for garden design extends to lecturing, leading garden tours in France and Italy, and book publications. He has lectured extensively including at the Smithsonian Institute, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and to Garden Clubs. Cox is the author of several books and wrote the preface for The Gardener’s Garden (Phaidon, 2014). He was the first American to design a garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in London in 1997, and won a Silver-Gilt Medal. He is a member of prominent organizations in France, Morocco and India, and is the president of both Foundation Pierre Berge ― Yves Saint Laurent and Foundation Jardin Majorelle.