Courtnay S. Daniels

Chairman
Greenwood, Virginia

Courtnay Daniels joined the Garden Conservancy board of directors in 2006, became Vice-Chairman in 2011, and was elected Chairman in September 2018. She has opened her garden to the public through the Garden Conservancy Open Days and for our Society of Fellows garden-study tours. Courtnay is a long-time member of the Garden Club of America and a former partner in a small greenhouse business. She has served on the boards of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello and of the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, and has supported a variety of projects at the University of Virginia. 

Over the last twenty years, Courtnay has created a series of garden rooms, diverse shrub borders, greenhouses, and arboretum on more than twenty-nine acres at her home, Whilton Farm, an expansive pastoral landscape in the Blue Ridge Mountains. In 2008, the Wall Street Journal described her garden as having “one of the largest collections of rare plants in the country.”