Main entry:

Bisgrove, Richard, author.

Title & Author:

The gardens of Gertrude Jekyll / Richard Bisgrove ; special photography by Andrew Lawson.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1992]
©1992

Description:

192 pages : color illustrations, plans (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Introduction : Jekyll garden plans -- Garden making : A painterly vision for today's gardeners -- Garden character : Diversity of garden style -- Plant associations : Combining colors, forms, textures -- Hardy flower borders : Lessons in planting design -- Formal gardens : Pattern and planting -- Rose gardens : Variety within simplicity -- Design with shrubs : Durable planting -- Wild gardens : Low-maintenance gardening -- Steps and walls : Planting to soften hard lines -- Sun and shade : Exploring different aspects -- Jekyll plants : Descriptions and suggestions for use.

Summary:

"Gertrude Jekyll holds a unique place in the making of English gardens and has exerted immense influence on good garden planting throughout the world. Her genius was to endow gardens with an atmosphere of timeless serenity, valued in her own day but all the more precious in the tumult of the modern world." "Over the years, many of her gardens and original plantings have disappeared, and only a handful of her plans are well known, although thousands survive in archives." "For The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll Richard Bisgrove has selected the best of Miss Jekyll's planting plans, most until now unpublished. With painstaking original research he has analyzed and reinterpreted them, making them accessible to today's gardeners. He demonstrates that Miss Jekyll's ideas on planting remain fresh and relevant. Though many of the gardens she worked on were large, she usually preferred to divide them into smaller components. Her skill in using plants to soften the hard lines of new gardens and formal architecture, her ability to compose plantings to sustain interest throughout the seasons, her solutions to the problems of shady spots and awkward corners - all these make her designs directly applicable to today's limited plots." "The plans are brought alive by an accomplished watercolorist and are enhanced by full-color photographs of Jekyll gardens and of modern plantings in the Jekyll tradition."--Jacket

ISBN:

0316096571 (hardcover)
9780316096577 (hardcover)

Subject:

Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932.
Gardens Design.
Landscape gardening.
Jardins Architecture.
landscape gardening.

Added entries:

Lawson, Andrew, 1945- photographer.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 87517
Call No.: ID:93-B2121
Status: Available