Gertrude Jekyll is a renowned English landscape designer who gained fame and recognition for her significant garden designs and writing. Her style of gardening was that of the "woodland and water treated 'naturally'".

She is seen as an important influence on the early work of Edna Walling. At the age of seven, Walling visited the village hamlet of Sonning where Jekyll's Deanery Garden is located. She was "so enthralled that I made a vow that when I owned my own cottage I'd call it Sonning."

Jekyll (briefly):

    -produced some 2,000 garden plans.

    -created over 400 gardens in the United Kingdom, Europe and North America,

    -became a talented photographer and painter, and

    -wrote thirteen books and over a thousand magazine articles.

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