Geoffrey Smith est né le 31 décembre 1928 à North Yorkshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni. Il est mort le 27 février 2009 à North Yorkshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni.
He worked for twenty years as superintendent of the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Harlow Carr, North Yorkshire. He was responsible for creating the Streamside Garden and the Limestone Rock Garden, disproving the doubts of many gardening experts about the plants that would grow this far north in Harlow Carr's poor-quality soil.
