The Gardens of Gertrude JekyllGertrude Jekyll holds a unique place in the making of English gardens and has exerted immense influence on good garden planting throughout the world. Her genius was to endow gardens with an atmosphere of timeless serenity, valued in her own day but all the more precious in the tumult of the modern world. Over the years, many of her gardens and original plantings have disappeared, and only a handful of her plans are well known, although thousands