Mary Watt

Muriel Mary Watt (née Lysaght; 27 March 1917 – 2 July 2005) was a New Zealand landscape architect and gardener.

In 1946, she enrolled to study at the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, completing a three-year course.

[1][7] Her most notable work was the garden for Shirley Smith and Bill Sutch for their house in Brooklyn, Wellington.

[7] In 1953, Lysaght married John Harold Watt, a scientist who rose to become assistant director of the horticulture division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

[1][6] Mary Watt died in Wellington on 2 July 2005,[1] and was buried in Hāwera Cemetery.