"Elizabeth Gertrude Britton Elizabeth Gertrude Britton (née Knight) (January 9, 1858 – February 25, 1934) was an American botanist, bryologist, and educator. She and her husband, Nathaniel Lord Britton played a significant role in the fundraising and creation of the New York Botanical Garden. She was a co-founder of the predecessor to the American Bryological and Lichenological Society. She was an activist for protection of wildflowers, inspiring local chapter activities and the passage of legislation. Elizabeth Britton made major contributions to the literature of mosses, publishing 170 papers in that field. Elizabeth Gertrude Knight was born on January 9, 1858"
"In addition, the works of Gertrude Jekyll, a British 20th-century garden designer and prolific writer, popularized the use of the ""herbaceous border"" through a revival of the British cottage garden. Maintaining the herbaceous border is work-intensive, as the perennials have to be dug up every 3–4 years and divided to keep the bed clean-looking and prevent overgrowth of the plants. In World War I this type of border became less popular in Britain as there was a shortage of labour to keep the gardens maintained. However, there are still some celebrated examples in British gardens. According to the ""Guinness Book"
"she created, particularly her ""hardy flower borders"". Jekyll was one of the first of her profession to take into account the colour, texture, and experience of gardens as the prominent authorities in her designs, and she was a lifelong fan of plants of all genres. Her theory of how to design with colour was influenced by painter J. M. W. Turner and by impressionism, and by the theoretical colour wheel. Their collaborative style was first developed at Herstercombe and described by the garden writer and designer Penelope Hobhouse as: The ""Great Plat"" combined the patterned features of a parterre with"
"Robinson and Gertrude Jekyll, who wrote widely in journals about their design philosophy as did others like British novelist Vita Sackville-West, a serious and dedicated garden enthusiast. These writings are thought to have influenced garden design in Australia, most evident in the work of acclaimed landscape architect, Edna Walling. Many gardening ideas of the time are apparent at El Arish; contrived ""wild"" sections of plantings; emphasis on contrasting foliage, particularly involving sub-tropical plants and the use of rock- gardening, along with planning and layout ideas including the use of local quarried stone walling, a sense of enclosure, a myriad of"
"the Jekyll family memorial at Busbridge Church, Surrey, England. Agnes Jekyll was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1918 for her public works. Lady Jekyll first published ""Kitchen Essays"" (1922) in ""The Times"", reprinted in 2001 by Persephone Books. Agnes Jekyll Dame Agnes Jekyll, (née Graham; 12 October 1861 – 28 January 1937) was a British artist, writer and philanthropist. The daughter of William Graham, Liberal MP for Glasgow (1865–1874) and patron of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, she was educated at home by governesses, and later attended King's College London. She married Herbert Jekyll"
"horticulture, although as a member of staff at the botanic garden he built up an up a practical and theoretical knowledge that would become the foundation of his career. One of his earliest design projects was working on the rose garden there. In 1930, Thomas joined the then famous Six Hills Nursery in Stevenage, working under alpine expert Clarence Elliott. The following year he became foreman at T. Hilling & Co (Hillings), a renowned 300-acre nursery near Chobham, Surrey. It was while working at Hillings that Thomas met the formidable garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, then aged 88, when he wrote"
"Gertrude Jekyll. Her ideas about traditional cottage garden plants, particularly flowering ones, and their placement greatly influenced the appearance of war cemeteries. Soon after the Commission completed its program of World War I cemeteries in 1938, World War II began and the Commission realised that their efforts would be needed in many more countries. As that war progressed in the Allies' favour, the Commission began restoring its WWI cemeteries and memorials and commenced the task of commemorating 600,000 Commonwealth casualties from WWII. It built 559 new cemeteries and 36 new memorials and changed its name to the Commonwealth War Graves"
"the landscape; she promoted solid fields of color as opposed to the scattered arrangements used by more traditional Victorian era gardeners. King counted among her correspondents and friends Charles Sprague Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum and landscape architects Fletcher Steele, Ellen Biddle Shipman, and Martha Brookes Hutcheson. King's first book, ""The Well-Considered Garden"", appeared in 1915, the first of ten books published in a 15-year period on topics such as soil management, garden planning, and tool care. It is still considered a classic, and Gertrude Jekyll, who had become a friend and admirer of King's work, wrote the preface. King"
"mixed herbaceous borders that were advocated by Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood in Surrey from the 1890s. Her plantings, which mixed shrubs with perennial and annual plants and bulbs in deep beds within more formal structures of terraces and stairs designed by Edwin Lutyens, set the model for high-style, high-maintenance gardening until the Second World War. Vita Sackville-West's garden at Sissinghurst Castle, Kent is the most famous and influential garden of this last blossoming of romantic style, publicized by the gardener's own gardening column in ""The Observer"". The trend continued in the gardening of Margery Fish at East Lambrook Manor."
"Manor, Oxfordshire, actually an assemblage of charming and picturesque houses and cottages, fine barns and stables, where she developed her skills as a gardener. Influenced by Gertrude Jekyll she created the noted garden at the house, with an inspired kind of untidiness that influenced her lifelong friend Vita Sackville-West's love of self-seeded surprise effects within a formal structure at Sissinghurst and that may be detected today in the garden style of Rosemary Verey. The writings of Gertrude Jekyll and the early champion of wild gardens William Robinson, she had no formal botanical training, but a highly developed 'garden sense' that"
"wife Julia Hammersley. Her younger brother, Walter Jekyll (an Anglican priest; sometime Minor Canon of Worcester Cathedral and Chaplain of Malta), was a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, who borrowed the family name for his famous novella ""Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"". In 1848 her family left London and moved to Bramley House, Surrey, where she spent her formative years. She never married and had no children. Jekyll was one half of one of the most influential and historical partnerships of the Arts and Crafts movement, thanks to her association with the English architect, Edwin Lutyens, for whose projects she"
"Gertrude Jekyll in 1922 to extend the garden (Plans, NMR), working with the architect C. Clare Nauheim. In 1928-9 Sir John employed Percy Cane to extend the garden further, and some of Jekyll's features appear to have been overlain by Cane's work. Cane produced a plan of around 1928, from which the names of the garden compartments have been taken and used in this description. Jarvis bought unemployed miners from the northern industrial town of Jarrow to Hascombe Court, where they built a Japanese style water and rock garden to Cane's design. Sir John Jarvis died in 1950. It was"
"learn drafting to scale, elevation rendering, surveying, and engineering, and so studied at the Columbia School of Mines under the direction of Prof. William Ware. She was influenced in using native plant species from: her many successful Reef Point experiences; studying the contemporary books from the U.S. and abroad advocating the advantages of native palettes; and from visiting the influential British garden authors William Robinson at Gravetye Manor in Sussex, and Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood in Surrey. Jekyll's series of thematic gardening books emphasized the importance and value of natural plantings and were influential in the U.S. On December"
"thereby escalating a row which, however, was patched up the following year, when Bowles invited Willmot to Myddelton House. Ellen Willmott and Gertrude Jekyll were the first female recipients of the RHS's Victoria Medal of Honour, instituted in 1897 and, as noted, bestowed on Bowles in 1916. One of Jekyll's biographers wrote that Willmott ""was in many ways as unusual as Gertrude"". Bowles' more specialised works included his handbooks on crocuses (1924) and narcissi (1934), which contained his own illustrations. Material that he had collected for a monograph on snowdrops and snowflakes was incorporated after his death in a book"
"located in New York and New England. Allen's landscape designs were influenced by the work of Gertrude Jekyll, whom she met in 1921 on her European travels and whom she would later visit again at Munstead Wood. She featured perennials in her plantings, creating English-style perennial borders and designs featuring topiary work. Allen became best known for geometric gardens, especially her knot gardens, the designs for which were influenced by knot gardens she had seen during her European travels. She created knot gardens for the 1939 New York World's Fair, with Constance Boardman, the Bishop's Garden at Washington Cathedral, and"
"boys and men I found very helpful as we had a fine spirit of camaraderies in the drafting room and many a helping hand was given me at a critical moment, though one had to steel oneself to hear many a severe criticism, which was perhaps even more valuable."" She graduated in 1904 and travelled to Europe with her mother, visiting well-known gardens and staying with family and friends. Along the way she met Edith Wharton, Henry James and Gertrude Jekyll among others. Jekyll, an influential British horticulturist and garden designer, had a major influence on Coffin's subsequent work. On"
"Lloyd loved gardens, designed some of the garden himself, and imparted that love to his son. Lloyd learned the skills required of a gardener from his mother Daisy, who did the actual gardening and who introduced him to Gertrude Jekyll. After Rugby School, he attended King's College, Cambridge, where he read modern languages before entering the Army during World War II. After the war he received his bachelors in Horticulture from Wye College, University of London, in 1950. He stayed on there as an assistant lecturer in horticulture until 1954. In 1954, Lloyd moved home to Great Dixter and set"
"Eugene Chantrelle Eugene Marie Chantrelle (1834 in Nantes – 31 May 1878 in Edinburgh) was a French teacher who lived in Edinburgh and who was convicted for the murder of his wife, Elizabeth Dyer. He is claimed to be the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's character Dr Jekyll featured in ""The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"". Stevenson met Chantrelle at the home of Victor Richon, Stevenson's old French master. Chantrelle was hanged for his crimes at Calton Prison in Edinburgh. Chantrelle was teaching French at the private Newington Academy in Edinburgh when he began a relationship with"
"History of Garden Art"" in 1913. More scholarly but less eloquent than her contemporary Gertrude Jekyll, Amherst never became nearly as popular or influential a writer on gardening. But with its meticulous footnotes and exhaustive annotated bibliography, ""The History of Gardening in England"" became the authoritative work in its field and remains of value to historians today. Amherst wrote several more books, including two for children after she became a mother: ""Children's Gardens"" (1902) and ""Children and Gardens"" (1908). Her ""London Parks and Gardens"" (1907) is the first serious and deeply informed book on London's open spaces. Amherst wrote a"
"could design both house and garden for a country estate"", for he had recently made a trip to Italy and wrote a book about the gardens there. By the time the Shipmans divorced in 1910, Ellen Shipman was well on her way to establishing herself as a talented garden designer nationwide. She and Platt played off their mutual requirements: Platt needed Ellen for her knowledge of horticulture and Ellen needed Platt for his knowledge of drafting and design. Shipman was also heavily influenced by Gertrude Jekyll's brilliant use of borders, as well as memories of her grandparents’ farm. By 1920"
"of short stories, many of which have Gothic elements. He attempted one more stage collaboration with Mansfield, a drama about the Roman emperor Nero, but after its failure the two became estranged. Thomas Russell Sullivan Thomas Russell Sullivan (November 21, 1849 – June 28, 1916) was an American writer. He is best known for ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"", an 1887 stage adaptation of ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"" by Robert Louis Stevenson. He also wrote novels and short stories, often with Gothic motifs. His posthumously published journals have been used as a historical source about the"
"I want to make it fantastic"". In 1999 2,418 kg of yew clippings were collected from the Hascombe Court estate by Evans's gardeners, and were given the cancer research charity Limehurst. The clippings were used in drug research for breast cancer. Evans sold Hascombe Court for £10 million to the Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky in 2004. The adjoining 130 acre Hascombe Court Farm was sold by Evans for £6 million to Anthea Turner and Grant Bovey in 2009. Hascombe Court Hascombe Court is a estate in Hascombe, Surrey, best known for its vast garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll. Hascombe Court"
"The gardens, seven in all, are enclosed areas (""chambres verts"" – ""green rooms"" of plants) surrounding the house on the south and east sides. Gertrude Jekyll, their creator, mixed colours and scents together in order to design a unique atmosphere in each of them. The layout of the gardens relates closely to the rooms within the house; for example, the two stone seats set in niches in a yew hedge at the end of the White Garden mirror the arrangement of two small closets and a large mullioned window at the opposite end of the music room. Reflecting the Theosophist"
"degeneration and anxiety are expressed not only through the physical landscape which provided a backdrop for Gothic Literature, but also through the human body itself. Works such as Robert Louis Stevenson's ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"" (1886); Oscar Wilde's ""The Picture of Dorian Gray"" (1891); Arthur Machen's ""The Great God Pan"" (1894); H.G. Wells' ""The Time Machine"" (1895) and Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"" (1897) all explore themes of change, development, evolution, mutation, corruption and decay in relation to the human body and mind. These literary conventions were a direct reflection of many evolutionary, scientific, social and medical theories"
"by her and influenced by friends and crafts people: Edward Burne-Jones, Walter Crane, Alexander Fisher, William de Morgan and Phoebe Traquair. The resultant Romanesque/Gothic revival exterior of the Watts Mortuary Chapel aroused such interest, that before work on the polychrome interior had started, Watts had set up permanent Arts and Crafts communities in both Compton and her home-town of Aldourie, Scotland. The outputs of the Compton group resulted in the formation in 1899 of the Compton Potters' Arts Guild. The innovative terracotta garden ornaments produced by the evening class group, recommended by Gertrude Jekyll, expanded into a production centre of"
"who are involved chiefly in the design of gardens, rather than the practical aspects of horticulture. Garden design is considered to be an art in most cultures, distinguished from gardening, which generally means ""garden maintenance"". Vita Sackville-West, Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson were garden designers as well as gardeners. Garden design is the creation of a plan for the construction of a garden, in a design process. The product is the garden, and the garden designers attempt to optimize the given general conditions of the soil, location and climate, ecological, and geological conditions and processes to choose the right plants"
"by Arts and Crafts ideals. The first houses were designed by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin in the vernacular style popularized by the movement and the town became associated with high-mindedness and simple living. The sandal-making workshop set up by Edward Carpenter moved from Yorkshire to Letchworth Garden City and George Orwell's jibe about ""every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England"" going to a socialist conference in Letchworth has become famous. Gertrude Jekyll applied Arts and Crafts principles to garden design. She worked with the English architect, Sir Edwin Lutyens, for whose"
"regional theatre and touring before making her first film in 1909. She continued with films until 1926. She died June 4, 1927 of chronic myocarditis and nephritis. Julia Hurley (actress) Julia R. Hurley (1848 - June 4, 1927) was an American actress who found popularity in her senior years in silent films. She is best remembered today as the 'landlady with the lamp' in the John Barrymore classic ""Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"" 1920, a role for which she is uncredited. This film is her most readily available film today. She worked for many of the early film studios i.e.:"
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1887 play) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a four-act play written by Thomas Russell Sullivan in collaboration with the actor Richard Mansfield. It is an adaptation of ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", an 1886 novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The story focuses on the respected London doctor Henry Jekyll and his involvement with Edward Hyde, a loathsome criminal. After Hyde murders the father of Jekyll's fiancée, Jekyll's friends discover that he and Jekyll are the same person; Jekyll has developed a potion that allows him to transform himself"
"climate and range of plant species—to the needs of American gardeners. The title of her second book, ""Colour in My Garden"", deliberately echoes Jekyll's influential 1908 book ""Colour in the Flower Garden"". Wilder's ""socio-botanical commentaries""—as author Michael Pollan termed them—captured the spirit of a moment in America when suburban gardening and its attendant forms of landscape design were on the rise and an older, more formal style of large estate garden was in decline. A ""New York Times"" editor called her a Romantic, but one ""with a strong vein of scientific curiosity that she exercised on a domestic scale.” Another"
"the room overlooking a private park, and covered by full-length walnut shutters. To the north a fireplace, over which hung the painting by American painter James McNeill Whistler, , that served as the focal point of the room. The ceiling was constructed in a pendant panelled Tudor-style, and decorated with eight globed pendant gas light fixtures. To finish the room, Jekyll placed a rug with a red border on the floor. Jeckyll had nearly completed his decorative scheme when an illness compelled him to abandon the project. Whistler, who was then working on decorations for the entrance hall of Leyland's"
"Armitage. A Musical was created by Frank Wildhorn, Steve Cuden, and Leslie Bricusse: ""Jekyll & Hyde: The Gothic Musical Thriller - The Complete Work"" (1994). S. G. Hulme Beaman illustrated a 1930s edition. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates"
"Jekyll, who was introduced to Baker by Edwin Lutyens (her friend) when he was working with Baker in Ernest George and Harold Peto's architectural office in London. Acanthus plants growing in the garden are symbolic of Herbert Baker's architectural profession. Also within the garden is a bird-bath formed from Tivoli Order variant Corinthian capitals salvaged from the old Bank of England building by John Soane when Sir Herbert rebuilt the Bank (between 1925 and 1939). When Herbert Baker died at the age of 83 on 4 February 1946 he left Owletts to the National Trust. The National Trust let it"