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Gertrude Jekyll

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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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Birth Year
1843 1
Death Year
1932 1
Nationality
British 1
Defining Contribution
Painterly planting design; the classic herbaceous border; some four hundred gardens 1
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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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1. Gertrude Jekyll (Wikipedia)
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Cottage Garden (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: The Cottage Garden Movement, Development sectionView the Source
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