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  1. Born29 November 1843 · Mayfair, London, England
    Died8 December 1932 (aged 89) · Munstead Wood, Busbridge, Surrey, England
    OccupationsHorticulturist · garden designer · photographer · writer and artist
    Rose Royalty: Gertrude Jekyll's Blooms
    Rose Royalty: Gertrude Jekyll's Blooms
    Gertrude Jekyll was a British horticulturist, artist, and writer who created over 400 gardens in her lifetime. She was also a passionate collector and breeder of roses, especially English roses.
    Gardens

    From 1881, when she laid out the gardens for Munstead House, built for her mother by John James Stevenson, Jekyll provided designs or planned planting for some four hundred gardens. More than half were directly co… See more

    Awards

    Jekyll was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1897 and the Veitch Memorial Medal of the society in 1929. Also in 1929, she was given the George Robert White Medal of Honor of the … See more

    Death and burial

    Jekyll died on 8 December 1932 at her home, Munstead Wood, in Surrey. She was buried in the churchyard of St John the Baptist, Busbridge, Godalming, next to her brother, Herbert Jekyll, and his wife, the artist, write… See more

    Legacy

    In 1907, Jekyll donated her collection of traditional household items and objects relating to "Old Surrey" to the Surrey Archaeological Society. Much of this donation is still on display at Guildford Museum. … See more

    Books

    Wood and Garden (Longmans, Green and Co., 1899).
    Home and Garden (Longmans, Green and Co., 1900).
    • (with E. Mawley) Roses for English Gardens (London: Country Life, 1902).… See more

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