Offers advice on planning a flower garden, recommends a variety of flowering plants, and discusses their care requirements

The Flower Garden

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Bisgrove, Richard

Gardening & Landscape Design

Penguin??Books

The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll

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The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll Richard Bisgrove has selected the best of Miss Jekyll's planting plans, most until now unpublished.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.

Little,Brown & Co

The English gardens of Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) have influenced good garden design throughout the world. While many of Jekyll's gardens and original plantings have disappeared, and only a handful of her plans are well-known, thousands survive in archives. Richard Bisgrove has selected a representative sample from this remarkable collection, and the designs—including plans for Jekyll's three American gardens as well as for many of her English gardens—have been redrawn by an accomplished watercolorist and relabeled to make them more accessible to the nonspecialist. Together they provide an astonishing record of Jekyll's versatility as a garden designer and of the painstaking attention to detail that she applied to every aspect of her art.

University of California Press

A guide to the gardens of the National Trust, showing the development of the English garden throughout history. The author has written four books on garden design, and was consultant editor of "Colour Scheme for the Flower Garden: The Illustrated Gertrude Jekyll".

The National Trust Book of The English Garden

Viking Adult

A guide to creating a harmonious flower garden discusses how to make the most of a garden site and use different approaches to grouping and planting flowers, and describes 200 flowering plants

Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd

Gertrude Jekyll is one of the most influential 20th-century garden designers. This book shows the best of her garden designs and a wonderful collection of her planting plans, made more accessible by extensive analysis and reinterpretation of the originals, accompanied by simple watercolours of the plans and illuminating photographs.

Frances Lincoln

Like his contemporary Gertrude Jekyll, William Robinson made enormous contributions to the world of gardening. More than any other gardener, he was responsible for sweeping out the rigid Victorian style and ushering in a more relaxed look that used native plants. Here, Richard Bisgrove explores Robinson’s design principles and his transformative role in English gardening. Robinson’s groundbreaking ideas are displayed in numerous illustrations, including photographs of Robinsonian gardens at Gravetye Manor and elsewhere and engravings from his classic books.

William Robinson: The Wild Gardener

Physical description; 208 p. + plates : ill. ; 22cm. Subjects; Gardens - England - Midlands.

Gardens of Britain, Three: Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire

Arts & Photography

Architecture

David&Charles

For four hundred years there has been a special relationship between Britain and what is now the United States of America in many aspects of life, not least in gardening. From the early settlers taking their familiar English plants to the New World and early plant-hunters bringing back exciting new plants for English gardens to the twenty-first-century English infatuation with "prairie gardening," ideas and plants have been crossing and re-crossing the Atlantic. In Gardening Across the Pond, Richard Bisgrove explores four centuries of translantic influences, from the Tradescants, plant-hunting in seventeenth century Virginia, to the prairie landscapes of the 2012 London Olympic Park, and attempts to answer that thorny question—is the English cottage garden an American invention?

Gardening Across the Pond: Anglo-American Exchanges from the Settlers in Virginia to Prairie Gardens in England

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Pimpernel Press

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The Flower Garden

The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll

The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll

The National Trust Book of The English Garden

The Flower Garden

The Flower Garden

The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll

William Robinson: The Wild Gardener

Gardens of Britain, Three: Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire

Gardening Across the Pond: Anglo-American Exchanges from the Settlers in Virginia to Prairie Gardens in England