🎨 Design Style
Cottage Garden
Woodland Garden
Arts and Crafts
🏆 Awards & Honors
🏆 Royal Horticultural Society Gold Medal
🏆 Veitch Memorial Medal
📖Biography
Gertrude Jekyll created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. She was the first person to coin the term 'woodland garden' and was a proponent of the cottage garden style. Jekyll collaborated extensively with architect Edwin Lutyens on many of her most famous projects.
💡 Influences
• William Robinson
• Arts and Crafts Movement
🎓 Education
Self-taught, studied art in London and Paris
📚 Publications
• Wood and Garden
• Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden
🏆Notable Works
Munger Place
Hestercombe Gardens
Lindisfarne Castle
🏛️Designed Gardens
Munger Place
Surrey
Iconic Arts and Crafts garden design
Hestercombe Gardens
Somerset
Restored formal gardens with Jekyll's naturalistic approach
Lindisfarne Castle
Northumberland
Dramatic coastal garden design
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