Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34390 in Books
• Published on: 1992-10-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

Gertrude Jekyll, not biography but beautifully illus. garden layouts by this great lady
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.