Gardening CompanionGertrude Jekyll grew up wanting to be a painter. But, she turned to gardening instead, where her love of plants, allied to her eye for colour and for the architectural 'structure' of a garden, produced a revolution in 20th-century garden design. This is a posthumous collection of her notes and articles written over a period of nearly forty years. |
Contents
Gardens Past and Present | 23 |
Some Problems of Garden Planning | 63 |
The Water Garden | 83 |
The south border in late summer showing Yuccas Hydrangeas | 123 |
Colour in the Garden | 127 |
A picturesque association of Gypsophila paniculata and Megasea | 145 |
Wild and Garden Roses | 151 |
Two views of the spring garden The boldleaved plant | 172 |
Some Hardy Families | 211 |
Guelder Rose on door leading from border to spring garden | 215 |
A September border with Michaelmas Daisies Grasses | 222 |
1 Gaultheria Shallon | 228 |
The Winter Garden | 229 |
A group of Munstead White Foxgloves in the wood | 243 |
A Retrospect | 247 |
Rhubarb Rheum foliage with background of Ivy | 249 |
Common terms and phrases
annuals Artemisia stelleriana Asters Aubrietia bank beautiful better blue Boursault bush bushy charming China Asters Clematis Clematis Flammula colour cool crimson cultivation Daffodils Dahlias deep delightful Delphinium Delphinium Consolida desirable double dwarf early edge effect Fern flower borders flowering plants foliage front gallica garden plants garden Roses Gardening Illustrated greater number green grey grey garden ground growing grown growth Guelder Rose handsome hardy Heath height Hellebores Hollyhocks hybrid Iberis inches Iris garden Irises kinds late Lavatera Lavender leaves Lilies mass Michaelmas Daisies middle native natural old favourite old garden orange orange colour pale yellow palest path pergola petals Phlox pink Poppies pretty Primroses pure Rosa Royal Horticultural Society Salvia patens scarlet scent seed seen shade shrubs Snapdragons Snowdrops soil sown space species summer sweet tall tender terrace thing tint trees Tulips Violets wall Wallflower white variety whole wild wood woodland