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Gertrude Jekyll grew up wanting to be a painter. Fortunately for all gardeners, she turned to gardening instead, where her love of plants, allied to her eye for colour and for the architectural 'structure' of a garden, produced a revolution in twentieth-century garden design. By her writings, and by the gardens she created (notably her own at Munstead Wood), she killed off the regimental 'Parks Department' style of gardening, with its ugly rows of ill-matched bedding plants, and introduced the idea of a garden as a succession of rooms or spaces in which every plant, shrub or tree would be in harmony with every other. A posthumous collection of her notes and articles written over a period of nearly forty years, it is a distillation of her revolutionary approach to gardening. More than that, it communicates a love of plants and the natural world which is wholly inspiring and at times highly moving.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #380285 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

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Gertrude Jekyll, an anthology
This companion is an anthology of articles on gardening from Gertrude Jekyll published in several magazines during the period 1896 till 1931. She was a very influential garden designer of the last part of 19th and early 20th century, more a plants woman or what we presently call a designer with plants. Besides these articles she has written many books on gardening, which have had a large impact on many gardeners all over the world, even today. If you have read her books, this selection of articles and notes are a welcome addition, if not, it is a good starting point to learn about her ideas. If you do not like this book, not much money is wasted, but if you like it, you could be spending much more on buying all her excellent books.