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Gertrude Jekyll is one of the most influential 20th-century garden designers. This book shows the best of her garden designs and a wonderful collection of her planting plans, made more accessible by extensive analysis and reinterpretation of the originals, accompanied by simple watercolours of the plans and illuminating photographs.
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Richard Bisgrove is the director of the Landscape Management degree course at Reading University. He has designed gardens in Britain and the United States and lectures internationally on the history of garden design and on the work of Gertrude Jekyll.
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In order to understand why Miss Jekyll holds such an important place in the making of today's gardens, it is necessary to consider briefly the background to her gardening activities. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
In order to understand why Miss Jekyll holds such an important place in the making of today's gardens, it is necessary to consider briefly the background to her gardening activities. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Not a biography of Jekyll, but beautifully illustrated details of this great lady's garden designs, including many that are famous and open to the public e.g. Hestercombe Gardens (front cover picture). You learn some of the ways she thought about planting combinations and can easily imagine the sights, textures and aromas. With the layouts together in one book, you also appreciate how she adapted to various locations and climates. Read it straight through, but it's also ideal for dipping into - to enjoy the pictures, or to cheer you up during winter when there's not much gardening to do. The attractive coloured diagrams of her garden layouts add great visual appeal as well as being practical (if they weren't there you'd think "this book needs layout diagrams"). You can't help but wonder what plants you'd put in for yourself and so this book has the subsidiary effect of providing ideas and inspiration for your own garden.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Gertrude Jekyll is one of those giants of 'modern' garden design and this book shows off her genious very well. I bought the book as a present for my wife who is the real gardener in the family as an inspiration for planning our own garden layout. We haven't been disappointed!
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
So far as I can tell, this is a tremendous book, although my wife's complaint is that it was all so easy for Gertrude having her men do all the digging and weeding, etc. while she sat back and planned everything so wonderfully! A fair bit of text which might put some folk off.
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