Gertrude Jekyll was born in London 1843 into a family of artistic inclination. At the age of five, she moved with her family to West Surrey to a house with a garden where she lived in close contact with nature and the local country folk.
At the age of thirty, she was busy particularly with painting and crafts: embroidery, wall-papers, tapestry, wood and metal-working. She also started to venture into gardening, collaborating with the magazine The Garden, soon becoming a highly-esteemed landscape designer.
Gertrude Jekyll believed that a good gardener should be an artist and the garden should be a three-dimensional painting where the best elements of formal style could be blended with those of nature.
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Inauguration
Villa Giulia, Saturday 20 September, 10 am