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The most influential garden designer of her age, creator of some four hundred gardens in Britain, Europe and America. Trained as a painter, she brought a colorist's eye to the herbaceous border, drifting warm and cool tones into planned sequences, and her partnership with the architect Edwin Lutyens defined the English garden ideal.
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Defining ContributionPainterly planting design; the classic herbaceous border; some four hundred gardens 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Jekyll is remembered as a premier influence on garden design, especially the herbaceous border and planting for colour.
Jekyll and Robinson worked together for over fifty years and their designs defined the movement's look
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