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Books by Gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll's Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden
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3.98 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1908 — 73 editions

Wood and Garden
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3.95 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1981 — 125 editions

English Journeys the Beauties of a Cottage Garden
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3.33 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions

The Gardener's Essential Gertrude Jekyll
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4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1991 — 10 editions

Colour in the Flower Garden
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3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1995 — 46 editions

Gertrude Jekyll on Gardening
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3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1964 — 10 editions

Arts and Crafts Gardens
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions

Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both
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Gertrude Jekyll

British garden designer and writer

Gertrude JekyllVMH (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]

Early life

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Jekyll was born at 2 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London, the fifth of the seven children of Captain Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll, Esquire, an officer in the Grenadier Guards, and his wife Julia, néeHammersley. In 1848 her family left London and moved to Bramley House in Surrey.^[3] She never married and had no children.

Her younger brother, Walter Jekyll (an Anglican priest; sometime Minor Canon o

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Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932: Children and Gardens (London: Offices of "Country life", Ltd.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1908)
Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932, contrib.: The Well-Considered Garden (new and revised edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1923), by Mrs. Francis King (page images at HathiTrust)

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Additional books from the extended shelves:

Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932: Annuals & biennials, the best annual and biennial plants and their uses in the garden (Country Life;, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932: Colour in the flower garden ("Country life", ltd. [etc.], 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932: Colour in the flower garden (Gutenberg ebook)
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