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Lady Susan Jellicoe ( Pares; 30 June 1907 – 1 August 1986) was an English plantswoman, photographer, writer, and editor who worked in collaboration with her husband, the landscape architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe. Her main interest was in landscape and garden design.
She was educated at St Paul's Girls School, Hammersmith, and the Sorbonne, Paris. On 11 July 1936, she married the landscape architect Geoffrey Jellicoe. During the war she served in the Ministry of Information department that countered enemy propaganda, working on the analysis of aerial reconnaissance photography.
From 1945, she worked with her husband, designing planting schemes and taking the photographs for his architectural practice. She was an honorary associate of the Landscape Institute and helped found the International Federation of Landscape Architecture (IFLA)."A Tribute to Susan Jellicoe", Landscape Design, October 1986.
In 1985, she was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Sheffield faculty of Landscape Architecture.
With Lady Margery Allen, she co-wrote The Things We See: Gardens (1953), The New Small Garden (1956) and Town Gardens To Live In (1977). She was also co-author of The Oxford Companion to Gardens with Geoffrey Jellicoe, Patrick Goode and Michael Lancaster (1986).
With Dame Sylvia Crowe and Sheila Haywood, she contributed research and photographs to The Gardens of Mughal India: A History and a Guide (1972). From 1961 to 1965, Jellicoe edited The Observer's Gardening Panel. She was editor of the Landscape Institute magazine Landscape Design for 20 years.
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