Gertrude Jekyll: Garden

Gertrude Jekyll was garden designer, artist. Explore interesting quotes on garden.

Gertrude Jekyll: 10 quotes0 likes

“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

“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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