Gardener
Gertrude Jekyll and the (much younger) architect Edwin Lutyens had a unique
partnership that altered the course of gardens during the Arts and Crafts
garden movement. With their innovative perspectives and unusual backgrounds
(Jekyll was well educated and classically trained in art), they brought about a
distinct character to the gardens of the time.
Jekyll
and Lutyens brought a focus to locally sourced garden design, with gardens and
their accompanying houses using regional materials and labor hired out to local
workers when at all possible. This emphasis on locality also meant that house and
garden design, while unique in certain individual features, was meant to blend
with the surroundings on a larger scale. The overall design also typically
included vistas and quiet courts, with some of the other features being
pergolas, water features (such as pools), rills, and arches.
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The
Arts and Crafts gardens by Jekyll and Lutyens were structured without appearing
rigid or overly formal. A main component was compartments, divided by yew
hedges, and each with a distinct theme that at the same time remained connected
to the other compartments and gardens as a whole. These compartments created
geometry in the gardens, which was offset and balanced by asymmetrical design
features.
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The
plants themselves were typically hardy and more local than the exotic
collections of previous garden types. Jekyll utilized her education in arts to
create innovative combinations of plants within the garden, becoming the first
gardener to apply painterly color theory to garden design, all the while
accounting for bloom times, plant height, and the greens of the foliage. A
primary example of color theory in Jekyll and Lutyens’ gardens was the
herbaceous border, which incorporated a well thought out color gradient into a
floral border planting.
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