Wood and Garden / Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur

Gertrude Jekyll

Nature is such a subtle chemist that one never knows what she is about, or what surprises she may have in store for us.

I try for beauty and harmony everywhere, and especially for harmony of colour.

I am strongly for treating garden and wooded ground in a pictorial way, mainly with large effects, and in the second place with lesser beautiful incidents, and for so arranging plants and trees and grassy spaces that they look happy and at home, and make no parade of conscious effort.