Gertrude Jekyll
(29 November 1843—8 December 1932)
"a premier influence in garden design"
For the best building and planting...
the architect and gardener must have
some knowledge of each other's business,
and each must regard
with feelings of kindly reverence
the unknown domains
of the other's higher knowledge.
MUNSTEAD WOOD
This is a Grade I listed house and garden in Munstead Heath, Busbridge on the boundary of the town of Godalming in Surrey, England, 1 mile (1.6 km) south-east of the town centre. The garden was created first, by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll.
"I think the garden reflects the personality of the owner. I like variety and colour - a bit of a jumble. That's the kind of person I would like to know. I think a garden should be fun!" - Annabel Watts main gardener at Mustead Wood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKVKcpE_gIg
LINDISFARNE CASTLE
The work of Edwin ‘Ned’ Lutyens and Gertrude ‘Bumps’ Jekyll in the first decades of the 20th-century saw the most dramatic changes made to the castle since the time of Elizabeth I.
Lutyens' renovation of the place, along with Jekyll’s planting plan for the garden and the castle surrounds, gave Edward Hudson (their patron) a comfortable – if slightly exposed – holiday home.
Since no major changes were made by Hudson’s successors, it is largely the Lutyens/Jekyll project which still greets the visitor today.
Her first plan was for a vegetable garden but it was her second plan, that of a summer flower garden, that was planted in 1911. This plan is the one our gardeners work to today. Bumps provided the garden with a wealth of colour during the summer months and designed it to be especially prolific during the month of August. Flowers include eight varieties of sweet peas, two of which are the delicate 'Miss Wilmott' and the deep crimson 'Queen Alexander'.https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lindisfarne-castle/features/lutyens-and-jekyll-transform-lindisfarne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x04663weHcM
HESTERCOMBE HOUSE
The Edwardian garden was laid out by Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens between 1904 and 1906 for the Hon E.W.B. Portman, resulting in a garden "remarkable for the bold, concise pattern of its layout, and for the minute attention to detail everywhere to be seen in the variety and imaginative handling of contrasting materials, whether cobble, tile, flint, or thinly coursed local stone".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaU96kN13pc
THE MANOR HOUSE GARDENS
In 1908 when she was 65 Gertrude Jekyll designed a garden owned by Charles Holme at Upton Grey.
Gertrude Jekyll drew plans for the four and a half acre garden. On this chalky, sloping site she designed one of her most beautiful gardens. It includes many features of a typical Jekyll garden, but on a rather smaller scale than most of her commissions.
The whole is faithfully restored to the many plans and plants that Jekyll prescribed.
The whole is faithfully restored to the many plans and plants that Jekyll prescribed.
