Florence Yoch and Lucile Council

Florence Theresa Yoch (July 15, 1890 – January 31, 1972)^[1] and Lucile Council (November 17, 1898 – January 21, 1964) were influential California landscape designers, practicing in the first half of the 20th century in Southern California.

Biography

George Cukor in his garden, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles.

Florence Yoch was born in Orange County,^[2] California. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University and finally the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign where she obtained a degree in Landscape Gardening. She began her practice in Pasadena in 1918 and was joined by Lucile Council in 1921, who consequently became her work and life partner. Council was born in Williamsville, Illinois.^{[3] [4][5]} Their landscape design works include:^[3]

• The estate of Howard Huntington, a Henry E. Huntington heir, in Pasadena.
• The equestrian estate of Will Keith Kellogg in the Pomona Valley, the present day campus of Cal Poly Pomona.^[6]
• 'Il Brolino' estate with topiary garden in Montecito,^[7]
• The Getty House gardens in Windsor Square, Los Angeles.
• Rancho Los Alamitos in Long Beach, California.^[7]
• The George Cukor gardens in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles - over several decades.
• The Jack L. Warner estate in Beverly Hills - present day Jeff Bezos estate.
• Film sets for the exterior of 'Tara' in Gone with the Wind
• The David O. Selznick estate in Beverly Hills.
• The Ebell of Los Angeles.
• Dorothy Dobbins Freeman Garden in Pasadena, California^[8]

The works of Florence Yoch and Lucile Council are documented in the book Landscaping the American dream: the gardens and film sets of Florence Yoch, 1890-1972.^[3]

See also

• Index: American landscape and garden designers

Los Mochis Sinaloa, Mexico. Benjamin Francis Johnston garden^[9]

References

1. California, Death Index, 1940-1997
2. Hadley Meares THe Fabulous Florence Yoch Curbed LA posted Apr 1, 2019, 10:30am PDT
3. "Landscaping the American dream: the gardens and film sets of Florence Yoch, 1890-1972"; by James J. Yoch; H.N. Abrams, 1989.
4. "Florence Yoch y Lucille Council las Arquitectas que Diseñaron el Jardin Botanico de los Mochis".
5. "Lucille Council". The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Archived from the original on 2013-12-08. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
6. "Best Colleges 2010 : Overview : California State Polytechnic University--Pomona". U.S. News & World Report. 2009-08-19. Retrieved 2010-05-01. Some of the world's finest architects and landscape architects designed and built the ranch - a hybrid of architecture, which combined the formal courtyards, gardens and elements of Spanish, Italian and Islamic architecture with the informality of a growing nouveau-riche society. Pasadena architect Myron Hunt (Rose Bowl, Huntington Library) designed Kellogg's main house. Charles Gibbs Adams, whose work included the Hearst Castle Gardens in San Simeon, California, was selected to landscape the grounds. Later, the landscape was completed by Florence Yoch and Lucille Council, widely recognized as two of the finest garden designers and landscape architects in California.
7. "Florence Yoch". The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Archived from the original on 2013-12-08. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
8. CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL RESOURCES INVENTORY DATABASE
9. Cristina Urias Espinoza. "Florence Yoch y Lucille Council Las Arquitectas que Diseñaron el Jardin Botanico de Los Mochis",La Voz del Norte, Mocorito, 28 April 2013. Retrieved on 28 April 2013.