Gertrude Jekyll was one of the most important garden
designers of the twentieth century. A prolific writer
and a hugely influential plantswoman, her circle of
friends included some of the most distinguished
architects, horticulturists, artists, and writers of the
time. This new volume in the Country Life Archives
series celebrates Jekyll's gardens and her legendary
theories on color, planting, and design with a selection
of her most famous collaborations with Sir Edwin Lutyens
and other important architects. The text is illustrated
with over 150 superb photographs that capture the
enduring magic of Jekyll's creative genius. Drawing on
Country Life's archive of photographs, the book presents
a fabulous selection of some of Jekyll's most famous
garden collaborations with Lutyens, which spanned forty
years and ranged over more than fifty gardens. Orchards,
Deanery Garden, Hestercombe Gardens, Lambay Castle, and
Folly Farm are among their seminal masterpieces. The
work of other important contemporary architects in her
circle, such as Oliver Hill at Valewood and L. Rome
Guthrie at Townhill Park, are included.Five themed
chapters based on the subjects of Jekyll's own
books-Home and Garden, Gardens Old and New, Gardens for
Small Country Houses, Colour in the Flower Garden, and
Garden Ornament-offer an opportunity to visit some of
her greatest gardens. Here are Jekyll's own garden at
Munstead Wood, Surrey, with her incomparable flower
borders; the historical gardens at St Catherine's Court
in Somerset and Owlpen Manor, Gloucestershire; and the
architect, Inigo Triggs's Little Boarhunt, with its
traditional formality on a small scale. Here, too, are
the magnificent water gardens at Marsh Court and the
exceptional restoration at The Manor House at Upton Grey
in Hampshire. A final chapter on garden ornament
highlights Jekyll's aesthetic guidelines on pergolas,
water features, and garden houses. |
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