John Fairey

Hempstead | Architecture Professor, Horticulturalist

John Fairey was an architecture professor at Texas A&M University, a plant explorer, and the founder and director of Peckerwood Garden in Hempstead, a collection of woodland, montane and desert plants native to the southern United States and Mexico.

Here he describes his memories and perspectives about Lynn Lowrey, the noted Houston horticulturalist, landscaper, and plant explorer.