Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden - Hardcover

Jekyll, Gertrude

 
9781851492169: Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden

Synopsis

This volume presents thoughts on "painting" a garden. Gertrude Jekyll studied painting as a young girl, then fulfilled many commissions, enjoying a considerable reputation as an artist and craftswoman before becoming a gardener.

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About the Author

Gertrude Jekyll created over 400 gardens in England, Europe and America. She holds a unique place in the making of English gardens and has exerted immense influence on good garden planting throughout the world. Her Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden, first published in 1908, was one of the most influential gardening books of the 20th century. She died in 1932.

Richard Bisgrove is the director of the Landscape Management degree course at Reading University. He has designed gardens in Britain and the United States and lectures internationally on the history of garden design and on the work of Gertrude Jekyll.

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