Gordon Ford (1918–1999) was an Australian landscape designer who created rugged gardens which were noted to be of a distinctly Australian style.
[1] After returning from service in New Guinea in WWII, he settled near Montsalvat, where he dug out a site and built a house made out of mud bricks from the clay.
[2] Ford worked closely with British architect Alistair Knox.
[3] He trained as a landscape gardener with Ellis Stones.
[4] In the last years of his life he trained landscape designer Sam Cox.