Gertrude Jekyll Quotes

Gertrude Jekyll was a British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States, and wrote over 1,000 articles for magazines such as Country Life and William Robinson's The Garden. Jekyll has been described as "a premier influence in garden design" by British and American gardening enthusiasts. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. November 1843 – 8. December 1932
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Famous Gertrude Jekyll Quotes

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

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