Gertrude Jekyll was always interested in gardens, and her reputation was sufficient for her to attract the notice of the upwardly mobile Irish garden writer William Robinson in 1875. They both wished ...

Far beyond gallery walls and onto a larger canvas. Gertrude Jekyll is one of the most celebrated garden designers in history. But to see her as a mere horticulturalist is to miss the flavour of ...

The garden was clearly a source of great pride to the Hallams, very much in the style of legendary Edwardian gardener Gertrude Jekyll, with great old roses festooning the front of the house ...

Hammersley’s gardening legacy lived on in his famous niece, Gertrude Jekyll, but after his death in 1882, the garden at Warren House was primarily the setting for late-Victorian social life. In 1907, ...

Sir Herbert Jekyll and his sister Gertrude both died in 1932, he in September and she in December. They are buried in Busbridge churchyard in west Surrey in a tomb designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens ...

Greg Jenner is joined in Victorian England by Dr Isabella Rosner and comedian Cariad Lloyd to learn all about the ethos, practitioners and creations of the Arts and Crafts movement.