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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Little Brown & Co
Publication date
November 1, 1992
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780316096577
ISBN-10
0316096571
Dimensions
0.75 by 10.50 by 10.50 in.
Weight
2.55 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$45.00
§As reported by publisher
Amazon.com says people who bought this book also bought:
Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur | Colour in the Flower Garden | Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood | The Layered Garden | Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden | The Gardener's Essential Gertrude Jekyll | The Illustrated Gertrude Jekyll
Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur | Colour in the Flower Garden | Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood | The Layered Garden | Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House Garden | The Gardener's Essential Gertrude Jekyll | The Illustrated Gertrude Jekyll
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Discusses the best planting plans of Gertrude Jekyll, argues that her principles of landscape design remain useful, and shows examples of her gardens
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Gertrude Jekyll holds a unique place in the making of English gardens and has exerted immense influence on good garden planting throughout the world. Her genius was to endow gardens with an atmosphere of timeless serenity, valued in her own day but all the more precious in the tumult of the modern world.
Over the years, many of her gardens and original plantings have disappeared, and only a handful of her plans are well known, although thousands survive in archives.
For The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll Richard Bisgrove has selected the best of Miss Jekyll's planting plans, most until now unpublished. With painstaking original research he has analyzed and reinterpreted them, making them accessible to today's gardeners. He demonstrates that Miss Jekyll's ideas on planting remain fresh and relevant. Though many of the gardens she worked on were large, she usually preferred to divide them into smaller components. Her skill in using plants to soften the hard lines of new gardens and formal architecture, her ability to compose plantings to sustain interest throughout the seasons, her solutions to the problems of shady spots and awkward corners - all these make her designs directly applicable to today's limited plots.
The plans are brought alive by an accomplished watercolorist and are enhanced by full-color photographs of Jekyll gardens and of modern plantings in the Jekyll tradition.
Over the years, many of her gardens and original plantings have disappeared, and only a handful of her plans are well known, although thousands survive in archives.
For The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll Richard Bisgrove has selected the best of Miss Jekyll's planting plans, most until now unpublished. With painstaking original research he has analyzed and reinterpreted them, making them accessible to today's gardeners. He demonstrates that Miss Jekyll's ideas on planting remain fresh and relevant. Though many of the gardens she worked on were large, she usually preferred to divide them into smaller components. Her skill in using plants to soften the hard lines of new gardens and formal architecture, her ability to compose plantings to sustain interest throughout the seasons, her solutions to the problems of shady spots and awkward corners - all these make her designs directly applicable to today's limited plots.
The plans are brought alive by an accomplished watercolorist and are enhanced by full-color photographs of Jekyll gardens and of modern plantings in the Jekyll tradition.
Editions
Hardcover
1 edition from Frances Lincoln Ltd (December 1, 2006)
9780711207462 | details & prices | 192 pages | 10.00 × 9.75 × 0.75 in. | 2.60 lbs | List price $45.00
About: Gertrude Jekyll is one of the most influential 20th-century garden designers.
About: Gertrude Jekyll is one of the most influential 20th-century garden designers.
The price comparison is for this edition
from Little Brown & Co (November 1, 1992)
9780316096577 | details & prices | 10.50 × 10.50 × 0.75 in. | 2.55 lbs | List price $45.00
About: Discusses the best planting plans of Gertrude Jekyll, argues that her principles of landscape design remain useful, and shows examples of her gardens
About: Discusses the best planting plans of Gertrude Jekyll, argues that her principles of landscape design remain useful, and shows examples of her gardens
Paperback
With Andrew Lawson (other contributor) |
from Univ of California Pr (August 1, 2000)
9780520226203 | details & prices | 192 pages | 10.25 × 10.00 × 0.50 in. | 1.95 lbs | List price $29.95
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