Gertrude Jekyll: Picture

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

Beauty

“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

Flowers

“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

God , Beauty , Dreams , Soul