Wood & Garden by Gertrude Jekyll
A Favorite Vintage Edition
“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, Wood & Garden
A classic gardeners’ companion
For Christmas this year I received a beautiful vintage copy of Wood & Garden by Gertrude Jekyll, and I have been excited to get to share this witty and humorous gardening book to you!
“Written in 1899, this is the gardening calendar of gardener Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932). The book is subtitled "Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur" and, using her own photographs, the author traces the progress, month by month, of the gardening year. She gives advice, information and ideas which should be as relevant to today's gardener as they were when she wrote the book nearly a century ago.”1
Join me today for photos and quotes of an undated vintage edition of Miss Jekyll’s classic book, Wood & Garden…
“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. I rejoice when I see any one, and especially children, inquiring about flowers, and wanting gardens of their own, and carefully working in them. For the love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but always grows and grows to an enduring and ever-increasing source of happiness…”
🌿 Gertrude Jekyll, Wood & Garden
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