Portrait of Jekyll by William Nicholson, painted October 1920; commissioned by Edwin Lutyens, donated to the Tate Gallery in 1921.
Born
29 November 1843
Mayfair, London, England
Died
8 December 1932(1932-12-08) (aged 89)
Munstead Wood, Busbridge, Surrey, England
Occupations
Horticulturist
garden designer
photographer
writer and artist
Gertrude JekyllVMH (/ˈdʒiːkəl/JEE-kəl; 29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist.[1] She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and wrote over 1000 articles[1] for magazines such as Country Life and William Robinson's The Garden.[2] Jekyll has been described as "a premier influence in garden design" by British and American gardening enthusiasts.[1]
^ abcVan Matre, Lynn (26 February 1989). "In Bloom Again: Gertrude Jekyll's Cult Status Is In Full Flower". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 3 June 2012.
^Bisgrove, Richard. The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll.London: Frances Lincoln, 2006.
GertrudeJekyll VMH (/ˈdʒiːkəl/ JEE-kəl; 29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer...
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Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll, an officer in the Grenadier Guards, and his wife Julia Hammersley. His sister was the gardener GertrudeJekyll. He was educated...
significance as the first collaborative effort between gardener and artist GertrudeJekyll and architect Edwin Lutyens. Today, Hestercombe Gardens stands as one...
collaborator, GertrudeJekyll between 1906 and 1912. It is some distance away from the castle itself. Between 2002 and 2006 it was restored to Jekyll's original...
as peas, carrots, and green beans, is also used. The horticulturist GertrudeJekyll wrote: "There are some English words which have no equivalent in French...
photographs of Miss GertrudeJekyll and Jekyll's Munstead Wood are attributed to Cowley. Cowley had a long working relationship with GertrudeJekyll, to whom she...
south-east of the town centre. The garden was created by garden designer GertrudeJekyll, and became widely known through her books and prolific articles in...
in Edinburgh. One of the most celebrated gardeners of modern times, GertrudeJekyll (1843–1932), laid out a tiny garden just north of the castle in 1911...
Bedales School Memorial Library – near Petersfield, Hampshire – 1919–21 GertrudeJekyll applied Arts and Crafts principles to garden design. She worked with...
self-evident, has governed much planting ever since, for example that of GertrudeJekyll, but was rather novel in European gardening at this point, where the...
building. The gardens—laid out by Lutyens and planted by garden designer GertrudeJekyll—are Grade II* listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and...
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Sir Edwin Lutyens and GertrudeJekyll and epitomize their trademark of firm structure luxuriantly planted...
largely disappeared until a new garden was laid out by garden designer GertrudeJekyll (1843–1932) in an Arts and Crafts-style. It now contains walled kitchen...
Gravetye Manor in Sussex, and GertrudeJekyll at Munstead Wood in Surrey, both wrote and gardened in England. Jekyll's series of thematic gardening books...
gardens in the 18th and 19th centuries. In addition, the works of GertrudeJekyll, a British 20th-century garden designer and prolific writer, popularized...
photographer, was born and raised in Kingston, then part of Surrey. GertrudeJekyll (1843–1932), garden designer, lived for much of her life at Munstead...
built in 1925 by the architect Edwin Lutyens with gardens designed by GertrudeJekyll, to replace a fishing lodge that was burned down in 1922 during the...
stylised mix of topiary with "cottagey" plantings that was practised by GertrudeJekyll and Edwin Lutyens in a fruitful partnership. The new gardening vocabulary...
gardening, which generally means garden maintenance. Vita Sackville-West, GertrudeJekyll and William Robinson were garden designers as well as gardeners. Garden...
rhododendron, and holly on slopes leading down to landscaped garden lakes. GertrudeJekyll explored the woods in the early 20th century.[citation needed] "The...
met the garden designer and horticulturalist GertrudeJekyll. In 1896 he began work on a house for Jekyll at Munstead Wood near Godalming, Surrey. It was...
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