Saurav SinghDecember 8, 2023Last Updated: December 31, 2023
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Gertrude Jekyll Quotes
Gertrude Jekyll (November 29, 1843 – December 8, 1932) was a trailblazing figure in the world of horticulture and garden design, renowned for her influential work during the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain. Her innovative approach to landscape architecture, coupled with her prolific writing, left an enduring mark on the art of gardening. Gertrude Jekyll was born on November 29, 1843, in London, the daughter of Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll, a retired military officer. Growing up with a cultivated sensibility, she developed a profound love for nature and its aesthetics.
Famous Gertrude Jekyll Quotes
Some of the Famous Gertrude Jekyll Quotes are mentioned below –
For the best building and planting…the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other’s business, and each must regard with feelings of kindly reverence the unknown domains of the other’s higher knowledge.It has taken me half a lifetime merely to find out what is best worth doing, and a good slice out of another half to puzzle out the ways of doing it.A garden is a grand teacher… above all it teaches entire trust.In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection. Having got the plants, the great thing is to use them with careful selection and definite intention.There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one’s clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.If you take any flower you please and look it over and turn it about and smell it and feel it and try to find out all its little secrets, not of flower only but of leaf, bud and stem as well, you will discover many wonderful things. This is how you make friends with plants, and very good friends you will find them to the end of our lives.“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
