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Gertrude Jekyll
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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics (2 April 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141190876
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141190877
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.8 x 0.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 233,802 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This is a celebration of the beauties and possibilities of Heliotrope and Honeysuckle, Auricula, Snapdragon, Spanish Iris and Corydalis, and all the other plants that enliven and exalt the gardens of England. Gertrude Jekyll gives good advice on how to make a garden a place of repose and pleasure. Writing with enthusiasm on the colours and scents of flowers, on the frustrations (and delights) of weeding and on the debasing influence of flower shows, she is practical, wise and entertaining in equal measure.

Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

About the Author

Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) was an artist and, as a garden designer, had a painterly touch she put to good use in the planting of hundreds of gardens. She is particularly renowned for her collaborations with architect William Lutyens. Her influence on gardening has persisted to this day.

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This Kindle edition, after a bit of detective work, features the second half of "Wood and Garden" published 1899 (?). It misses chapters dealing with the garden from January to December, but does include "Large and Small Gardens, Beginning and Learning, The Primrose Garden, Colours of Flowers, the Scents of The Garden, The Worship of False gods, Novelty and Variety, Weeds and Pests, The Bedding Fashion and its Influences, Masters and Men". The Kindle excerpt only gets you as far as an introduction by Ms J.

Not quite sure why the mother of English gardening has attracted so much opprobrium from another reviewer. As this doesn't include the full text I can't judge as I'm not interested in abridged books. Having read bits of Jeckyll years ago, I can't see what would raise so much rage. I think I'll wait for the full text version myself.
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I want to give NIL stars, but can't. So please discount the one given! One of the worst books I have ever purchased. It is poorly written by a rude, obnoxious author. It isn't worth the paper/screen it's written on. There is no useful content at all. Don't bother even if it's free!!
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