- Geoffrey Smith was born on December 31, 1928 in Barningham Park, Swaledale, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He died on February 27, 2009 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK.
- He worked for twenty years as superintendent of the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Harlow Carr, North Yorkshire. He was responsible for creating the Streamside Garden and the Limestone Rock Garden, disproving the doubts of many gardening experts about the plants that would grow this far north in Harlow Carr's poor-quality soil.
- [giving advice about gardening] Put the brown end in the soil, the green end above it, and you're in with a much better chance.
- If I am depressed, or I think the world's a filthy place, I just go and look at a flower.
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