MERL Lunchtime Seminar: March 3: Gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll: Artist, gardener, craftswoman This seminar is given by Richard Bisgrove, Garden historian and former Course Director for the BSc in Landscape Management, University of Reading • 3 March Gertrude Jekyll was, and remains, one of the most renowned English gardeners of all time, designing some 250 gardens between the closing years of the nineteenth century and her death in 1932, three years after the formation of the Institute of Landscape Architects. She also wrote a dozen or so books and contributed more than two thousand articles to Country Life and other periodicals. Preferring to be known as an ‘artist gardener’, she very rarely used the term ‘garden design’ because for her it was through gardening that the garden came into being. Richard will outline her life and work and briefly explore the relationship between the artist gardener and the landscape architect.

Suitable for
Not suitable for children

Admission
Free. Just come along. For more information email merlevents@reading.ac.uk or phone 0118 378 8660

Website
www.reading.ac.uk/merl

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//se000391?id=EVENT516601