Gertrude Jekyll quotes

Gertrude Jekyll was a renowned British horticulturist, garden designer, and writer. Her innovative approach combined artistic sensibilities with scientific principles, shaping the English garden style. She influenced generations of gardeners and left a lasting legacy through her designs and books. Here are 13 of her quotes:

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. (Gertrude Jekyll)

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

Gertrude Jekyll

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.

Gertrude Jekyll

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

Gertrude Jekyll

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

Gertrude Jekyll

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

Gertrude Jekyll

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.

Gertrude Jekyll

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

Gertrude Jekyll

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

Gertrude Jekyll

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

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

I am strongly of the opinion that possession of plants, however good, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection.

Gertrude Jekyll

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.

Gertrude Jekyll

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Occupation: British Designer
Born: November 29, 1843
Died: December 8, 1932
Quotes count: 13
Wikipedia: Gertrude Jekyll

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