gertrude jekyll

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Definition of gertrude jekyll in English English dictionary

born Nov. 29, 1843, London, Eng. died Dec. 8, 1932, London British landscape architect. She pursued painting until 1891, when she turned to garden design. She helped the landscape designer William Robinson (1838-1935) in his writings about the natural garden and wrote several successful books on her own, including Wood and Garden (1899) and Home and Garden (1900). Her taste was for the simplicity and orderly disorder of cottage gardens. She later worked closely with Edwin L. Lutyens, developing a modern, informal style of garden marked by a rhythmic use of colour and form

Hyphenation

ger·trude jekyll

Turkish pronunciation

gırtrud cekıl

Pronunciation

/ˈgərtro͞od ˈʤekəl/ /ˈɡɜrtruːd ˈʤɛkəl/