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Gertrude Jekyll, a renowned British gardener and designer, was born on November 29, 1843, and passed away on December 8, 1932. She is celebrated for her unique gardening style and contributions to British garden design, with her work continuing to influence modern gardening to this day.

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Famous Gertrude Jekyll Quotes

“A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.”

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“The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection. Having got the plants, the great thing is to use them with careful selection and definite intention.”

May Doe Use Numbers Garden Plant Intention Careful Possession Great Things Collections Quantity Definite Selection

Book:On Gardening

Source: On Gardening

“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”

Source: Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

“The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.”

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“There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.”

Feels Feelings Hands Would Be Deals Brain Quality Respect Garden Tools Fingers Touching Helpless Lovable Jekyll

Book:Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

Source: Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

“The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.”

Knows Giving Wish Lessons Essentials Garden Endure Gardening Garden Love Gardening And God Jekyll

Book:Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

Source: Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

“What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.”

Source: Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

“There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.”

Giving May States Earth Beauty Garden Delight Ugly Impression Spots Gardening Tamed Beauty Of The Earth Jekyll

Book:Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

Source: Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

“I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.”

Should Fit Taste Comfortable Clothes Garden Envy Owners

Author:Gertrude Jekyll

“To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.”

Mean Easy Flower Garden Plant Borders Colour Schemes Easy Things

Book:Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden

Source: Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden

“In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.”

Wells Kind Art Wisdom Knowledge Design Gains Garden Acquire Arrangements Jekyll

Book:Wall and Water Gardens: With Chapters on the Rock-garden and the Heath-garden

Source: Wall and Water Gardens: With Chapters on the Rock-garden and the Heath-garden

“I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the kindly branchlets through one's hand, and have the enjoyment of their incomparable incense; and I grow it against walls, so that the sun may draw out its inexhaustible sweetness to greet me as I pass.”

Knows May Hands Grows Steps Sun Wall Draws Garden Plant Enjoyment Pleasant Culinary Sweetness Incomparable Incense Rosemary

Book:Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

Source: Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

About the Author

Born: November 29, 1843
Died: December 8, 1932
Known for: Gardener
Quotes: 20

Books & Sources

Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working AmateurRelated source material

Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in BothRelated source material

Colour Schemes for the Flower GardenRelated source material

On GardeningRelated source material

Wall and Water Gardens: With Chapters on the Rock-garden and the Heath-gardenRelated source material

Wood and Garden - Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working AmateurRelated source material

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