Gardiner Greene (1753–1832) was a cotton planter and merchant from Boston, Massachusetts who conducted business from his plantation, Greenfield, in Demerara (Guyana) in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Socially prominent in the town of Boston, he owned a house, greenhouse, and garden filled with fruit trees and peacocks on Cotton Hill, opposite Scollay Square.

"He resided in Demarara for many years, and laid the foundation of a large fortune"[3] shipping cotton, coffee, rum, and the like.

[6][7] Greene served as an official of the United States Bank and the Provident Institution for Savings.

Here were growing in the open air Black Hamburg and White Chasselas grapes, apricots, nectarines, peaches, pears and plums.

"'In those primitive days ... the gardener, like the plants, had to be imported expressly from the old country,' according to Greene's daughter.

... At the back of the garden, the stable and cow shed were guarded by the 'fierce mastiff, Pedro,' whose fur Miss Greene made into mittens.