Home and Garden
Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both

The second book by one of the most influential garden designers of her time, first published in 1890.

Gertrude Jekyll (Author)

9781108037204, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 December 2011

404 pages, 46 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.51 kg

Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932), the distinguished and influential garden designer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, originally trained as an artist but later turned her hand to craftwork, gardening, and plant collecting and breeding. During her career she collaborated with distinguished architects such as Sir Edwin Lutyens and reached a popular audience through the publication of articles in newspapers and magazines such as William Robinson's The Garden. Jekyll's second book, first published in 1890, is a collection of her advice and reflections on a range of topics, particularly those relating to her own home, Munstead Wood. It contains chapters on particular plants, and gives guidance on projects such as building rock gardens, as well as more idiosyncratic pieces on her cats, or the importance of one's own tools. Jekyll's informal tone and the range of topics discussed make this a fascinating work of social and gardening history.

Preface
1. How the house was built
2. A wood ramble in April
3. A garden of wall-flowers
4. Trees and lanes
5. Wild honeysuckle
6. Brier roses
7. Midsummer
8. Roses and lilies
9. Large rock-gardens
10. Small rock-gardens
11. The workshop
12. The kinship of common tools
13. Cut flowers
14. Conservatories
15. The making of pot-pourri
16. Plants for poor soil
17. Gardening for short tenancies
18. Some names of plants
19. Wild ferns
20. The kitchen garden
21. The home pussies
22. Things worth doing
23. Life in the hut
Index.

Subject Areas: Botany & plant sciences [PST]