Beth Chatto OBE VMH (27 June 1923 – 13 May 2018) was a British plantswoman, garden designer and author best known for creating and describing the Beth Chatto Gardens near Elmstead Market in the English county of Essex. She wrote several books that discuss gardening under specific conditions, and lectured on this in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and Germany. Her principle of putting the right plant in the right place drew on her husband Andrew Chatto's lifelong research into the origins of garden plants.