Gertrude Jekyll

Download or read book The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll written by Richard Bisgrove and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Should there be any doubt that Gertrude Jekyll was among the greatest practitioners of the art of gardening (there isn't, of course), a survey of this book will quickly confirm her almost totemic status in twentieth-century ornamental horticulture."--Wayne Winterrowd, Horticulture, The Magazine of American Gardening "[This book] is scholarly, well-written, and based on original research. The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll is the most innovative study of the patron saint of modern gardeners since Jane Brown's pioneering Gardens of a Golden Afternoon appeared ten years ago. . . . [Bisgrove's] is the most detailed and comprehensive analysis ever made of Gertrude Jekyll's gardening."--Charles Quest-Ritson, Gardens Illustrated "The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll serves as a living complement to her gardening ideas, indicating the scope and variety her gardening vision could assume. Richard Bisgrove has mined extensive archives for Jekyll's most effective planning schemes, and illustrates them with photographs of her existing gardens. He helpfully divides chapters by types of gardenincluding formal gardens, rose gardens, wild gardens, steps and walks, and sun and shade."--Ann Geneva, Literary Review "Gertrude Jekyll is famous the world over as the mother of the lush English garden. . . . The stage is set for an updated revival of the Jekyll cult. Her philosophical commitment to native plants and gardens that incorporate existing heathland and woods makes her environmentally up to date."--Diana Ketcham, New York Times "The most comprehensive study I have seen of the garden-making ideas of this astonishingly prolific lady . . . This is a book that can be read cover to cover -- but one to which people will refer time and again over the years."--Arthur Hellyer, Financial Times "Richard Bisgrove must now be firmly established as one of our most authoritative, painstaking yet easy-to-read garden historians . . . The writing is a happy combination of scholarship and art . . . readers must be equally delighted with Andrew Lawson's magnificent photographs."--Graham Stuart Thomas, The Garden

Download or read book Colour Scheme in the Flower Garden written by Gertrude Jekyll and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gertrude Jekyll on Gardening written by Gertrude Jekyll and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1984 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This representative collection of her writings, taken from all her works, was made by a distinguished contemporary gardener who has specifically kept in mind today's garden needs and interests. --

Download or read book Home and Garden written by Gertrude Jekyll and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden written by Judith B. Tankard and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the work of one of the greatest garden designers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Download or read book Gertrude Jekyll written by Sally Festing and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sally Festing shows how impressions of her subject have become distorted in the popular imagination; how Gertrude Jekyll's real contribution to garden design is underrated, especially the profound influence she was to have upon the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens ..."--Publisher's description.

Download or read book Wood and Garden written by Gertrude Jekyll and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: