Gertrude Jekyll
Britain’s Greatest Gardener?
Online Lecture
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Lecturer: Mike Turner
Date: Saturday 12 April, 2025
Duration: 1 hour
Start Time: 4.00pm AEDT | 3.00pm QLD | 3.30pm SA | 1.00pm WA | 6.00pm NZST
Price: $25 AUD
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overview
Born in London in 1843, Gertrude Jekyll would go on to become the dominant horticultural figure of her generation - with an impressive legacy that endures to this day.
Growing up in the Surrey countryside, Jekyll was an accomplished artist and craftswoman, until failing eyesight in her forties forced her to redirect her artistic skills entirely to the garden.
Serendipitously, it was at this time that Jekyll met the up-and-coming architect Edwin Lutyens - who was also about to embark on an extraordinary career in which he would transform the Edwardian country- house landscape. Over 400 gardens have been attributed to Jekyll, of which a little over 100 were designed in collaboration with Lutyens’s architecture - the most famous of which was Jekyll's own house at Munstead Wood.
Join garden historian Mike Turner for a thrilling exploration of a leading proponent of the Arts & Crafts movement, whom Vita Sackville-West once described as ‘that grand gardener to whom we owe so much’.
YOUR EXPERT LECTURER
Mike Turner is a cultural and garden historian. He has a strong personal and academic interest in the art, history, literature, and mythology of the Classical past and how these have shaped the gardens and landscapes of Britain and Italy – from the Renaissance, to the Grand Tour, to the present day.
Mike lives in Sussex from where he is ideally based to design and develop new garden tours for Academy Travel. To date, these include ‘Gardens of a Passionate Mind: The Great Gardens of Southern England’ (2016 and 2018); From Yorkshire to the Lake District: The Gardens of the North (2017 and 2019); ‘The Great Gardens of Italy’ (2018); ‘The Gardens and Castles of Scotland (2018); ‘From Bath to Land’s End: The Gardens of the South West’ (2019); and his upcoming new tour ‘Great Garden Landscapes of Britain’ (2024).
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