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Jekyll, Gertrude

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Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843–1932, British artist, landscape gardener, and crafts artist. She was associated with William Robinson and Edwin Lutyens Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer , 1869–1944, English architect. He began his career designing small houses in Surrey and later executed a series of large country establishments, many of them complete with furniture and gardens.
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 in developing an informal and natural style of garden. Her works include Wood and Garden (1899) and Garden Ornament (1918).

Jekyll, Gertrude

(born Nov. 29, 1843, London, Eng.—died Dec. 8, 1932, London) British landscape architect. She pursued painting until 1891, when she turned to garden design. She helped the landscape designer William Robinson (1838–1935) in his writings about the natural garden and wrote several successful books on her own, including Wood and Garden (1899) and Home and Garden (1900). Her taste was for the simplicity and orderly disorder of cottage gardens. She later worked closely with Edwin L. Lutyens, developing a modern, informal style of garden marked by a rhythmic use of colour and form.



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