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Comune di Verbania - Settore Turismo
P.za Garibaldi 1, 28922 Verbania (VB)
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The genius of Gertrude Jekyll. Artist, Gardener, Craftswoman in collaboration with Surrey History Centre, Wokingfrom Saturday 20 to Sunday 28 September 2014Villa Giulia, Verbania PallanzaMonday to Thursday from 3 pm to 8 pm Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to 8pm

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.

Free entrance

Inauguration
Villa Giulia, Saturday 20 September, 10 am