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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Defining ContributionPainterly planting design; the classic herbaceous border; some four hundred gardens 1 Connections
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Jekyll is remembered as a premier influence on garden design, especially the herbaceous border and planting for colour.
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the RHS awarded Jekyll its Victoria Medal of Honour in 1897 (Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee), the first woman to receive the Society's highest horticultural honor
Jekyll and Robinson worked together for over fifty years and their designs defined the movement's look
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Gertrude Jekyll ( JEE-kəl; 29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist.
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