Gertrude Jekyll Quotes

“The duty we owe to our gardens is to so use the plants that they shall form beautiful pictures; and that, while delighting our eyes.”

Gertrude Jekyll

Colour in the Garden

“To devise these living pictures with simple well-known flowers seems to me to be the best thing to do in gardening.”

Gertrude Jekyll

Colour in the Garden Country Life Library, George Newnes Ltd, London, 1908
Colour in the Garden

“I am strongly of the opinion that possession of plants, however good, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection.”

Gertrude Jekyll

Colour in the Garden

“Paint upon a palette, delighting our eyes with soul-satisfying pictures, a treasure of well set jewels a sympathy with growing things, fashioned into a dream of beauty, a place of perfect rest and refreshment of mind and body. This sense of beauty is a gift of God.”

Gertrude Jekyll

Colour in the Garden

“The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.”

Gertrude Jekyll

As quoted in Dig, Plant, and Grow! (2009) by Louise Spilsbury, p. 13
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