Gertrude Jekyll Quotes About Gardens

• 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

  Trust, Patience, Teacher

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

• There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Respect, Garden, Hands

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

• The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Love, Garden, Jekyll

• In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Wisdom, Art, Knowledge

  Gertrude Jekyll (1913). “Wall and Water Gardens: With Chapters on the Rock-garden and the Heath-garden”

• What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Summer, Time, Spring

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

• 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.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Garden, Giving, Wish

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

• I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes do; it should be neither too large nor too small, but just comfortable.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Garden, Clothes, Envy

• I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the kindly branchlets through one's hand, and have the enjoyment of their incomparable incense; and I grow it against walls, so that the sun may draw out its inexhaustible sweetness to greet me as I pass.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Wall, Garden, Hands

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

• A garden is a grand teacher... above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Teacher, Garden

• There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Beauty, Garden, Giving

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Home and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both”, p.277, Cambridge University Press

• To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Flower, Mean, Garden

  Gertrude Jekyll (1919). “Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden”

• The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make a garden; it only makes a collection. Having got the plants, the great thing is to use them with careful selection and definite intention.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Garden, Numbers, Doe

  Gertrude Jekyll (1964). “On Gardening”

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