Gertrude Jekyll
Gertrude Jekyll ( born November 29, 1843 in London, † December 8, 1932 at Munstead Wood, Surrey ) was an English garden designer and author. It is considered the mother of the English country house style, often misnamed cottage garden ( " Cottage Garden " ) referred.
Life
She was born in Grafton Street in Mayfair in the Georgian town house of her parents, Captain Edward Jekyll and Julia Hammersley. She had three siblings, older sister Carry and the younger brothers Walter and Herbert. As a child she brought her nanny in the Green Park and Berkeley Square, where she braided chains of daisies. But dandelion she could not bring it home because he was considered a weed. When she was five years old, the family moved to Bramley Park, a country house in the Regency style in Guildford. The house had two ponds and surrounded by a park. Her parents sold it in 1868 and moved to Wargrave Hill in Berkshire, the ancestral home of the family. With 18 Jekyll in London began to study painting. She was influenced by Ruskin, Turner and Hercules Brabanzon. In the latter taking lessons. Under the influence of Morris, she began to embroider and designed embroidery pattern, also modeled, carved, gilded and forged them, painted walls, framed marquetry, designed wallpaper and jewelry, photographed and gardened. Many of her photographs were published in magazines. She was also interested in architecture. She drew numerous architectural details and photographed buildings in rural Sussex.
At the age of 19 she traveled to Charles Newton, curator of Greek antiquities to Greece and Turkey in 1868 to Rome. They also traveled to Algeria and from 1873 to Lake Geneva, where she lived in a cottage by Jacques Blumenthal. She was with the artists William Morris, whom she had met in 1869, George Frederick Watts and Frederic Leighton friends. 1875 she met the garden author William Robinson know. After her father's death in 1876 her mother moved to Munstead Heath in Surrey, a remote country estate near Bramley. Your house was designed in 1878 by the renowned Scottish architect John James Stevenson. Gertrude Jekyll designed a pseudo - Jacobean fireplace for the home and later put on the garden. They even had a studio here. 1895 her mother died.
Due to an unidentified eye disease ( " myopia " ) advised her in 1891 a doctor to give up embroidery and painting, so that their eyes could recover. She became a garden designer - without special training. Gertrude Jekyll rejected the then common in garden design fashion of the ' carpet -beds ' ( beds, where annuals are arranged to form accurate patterns ). Instead, they advocated more natural-looking plantings using perennials that in different shades of a single color or less harmony with one another render colors were often held. They used the plants as paint, and took little account of their environmental claims. Their designs were for many garden designers as a model. She created over 400 gardens in the UK, Europe and the United States. In 1881 she wrote the first of more than 1000 articles about garden design and plant use, especially for the magazine "The Garden", " Gardens Illustrated " (until 1932) and " Country Life " ( 1900-1932 ). Since 1900, she was Deputy Editor of "The Garden", a place which they gave back in 1901 but because of her eye condition.
In 1889, she met the young architect Edwin Lutyens; a fruitful collaboration began - he designed the buildings and the construction of the gardens, planting them the. Lutyens designed in 1896 her house, Munstead Wood, which she describes in her books Wood and Garden (1899 ) and Home and Garden ( 1900). Your discount will be kept in the museum of Godalming and the University of California. Some designs are in the library of the Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Hall
Plant
The Rose Gertrude Jekyll is named after her.
Gardens
- One of her most famous today to be visited gardens is Hestercombe Gardens in the county of Somerset.
- The designed and restored by her and Lutyens Manor House Garden in Upton Grey, Hampshire is also to visit.
- Munstead Wood, Surrey
Works
- Wood and Garden, notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur. Longmans, Green and Co., 1899.
- Home and Garden (1900)
- Roses for English Gardens, 1901
- Wall and Water Gardens, Country Life, London 1902
- Some English gardens, Longmans, 1904.
- Old West Surrey, Longmans, 1904. Revised reprint as " Old English Household Life", Batsford 1925 with a preface by Lutyens.
- Colour in the Flower Garden, 1908. Reissued as "Colour schemes for the flower garden ", Country Life, 1914.
- With Lawrence Weaver, Gardens for small country houses.
- Garden Ornaments, 1918.
- Annuals and biannuals. The best Annual and biannual plants and Their Use in the Garden, 1916.
- Children and Gardens
- Francis Jekyll and GC Taylor ( ed.), A gardener's testament (1937 ), collected articles