The duty we owe to our gardens is to so use the plants that… - Gertrude Jekyll

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The duty we owe to our gardens is to so use the plants that they shall form beautiful pictures; and that, while delighting our eyes.

Gertrude Jekyll

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About Gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll (29 November 1843 – 8 December 1932) was a British garden designer, writer, and artist. She created over 400 gardens in the UK, Europe and the USA and contributed over 1,000 articles to Country Life, The Garden and other magazines.

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Alternative Names: Jekyll • G. Jekyll • Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932

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Paint upon a palette, delighting our eyes with soul-satisfying pictures, a treasure of well set jewels a sympathy with growing things, fashioned into a dream of beauty, a place of perfect rest and refreshment of mind and body. This sense of beauty is a gift of God.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

To devise these living pictures with simple well-known flowers seems to me to be the best thing to do in gardening.

The duty we owe to our gardens is to so use the plants that they shall form beautiful pictures; and that, while delighting our eyes. - Gertrude Jekyll

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