Gertrude Jekyll and the Garden at Upton Grey

How is a Jekyll garden different without Lutyens?
Rosamund Wallinger (Upton Grey), Claire Greenslade (Hestercombe);
Host: Martin Lutyens
Panelists:
Claire Greenslade
Head Gardener at Hestercombe Gardens
Having grown up in Kent, Claire studied Fashion & Textiles at the University of the West of England in Bristol. Her first profession was as a textile designer. An interest in stained-glass prompted a return to college where she found her true calling. Gardening ticked all the boxes by encompassing colour, design, history, food and communities. While continuing her studies, Claire volunteered at the Barley Wood Walled Gardens, near Bristol. Claire was placed at Barrington Court during her National Trust Careership -- a three-year hands-on apprenticeship where five times a year for two week blocks all the National Trust students went to college and learned the theory side, gaining a brilliant all-round knowledge. Barrington Court, with its Jekyll-esque herbaceous borders, was a perfect placement. “I was lucky enough to work in a team of gardeners who had worked there for over 30 years and remembered what it was like to work there before it was a National Trust garden.”
Rosamund Wallinger
In 1983 John and I left London to buy a house in the country for a life with dogs, bantams and children. What we chose was a remarkably inexpensive, derelict Arts and Crafts house that stood in an even more derelict garden of 5 acres. I had had two successful careers; one owning and running a second-hand book-shop, the other running a small agency cooking directors’ lunches in the City. The garden was to become my third. In February 1984 an important gardening friend, Richard Bisgrove, told me that our garden had been designed by Gertrude Jekyll in 1908 for the house which was then owned by Charles Holme, founder and editor of the Arts and Crafts magazine, The Studio, and that, thanks to Beatrix Farrand, the plans survived in the Reef Point Collection at the University of California at Berkeley. We moved in in 1984 to start the enormous restoration work immediately.
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[@Knoyle1632]

Edwin Lutyens & Gertrude Jekyll : What a GREAT duet !! :-o :-o :-o

[@AJsGreenThumbLLC]

I have hung on to every word of this symposium! Just fascinating history! Thanks for sharing.

[@ruthpearsall2618]

Inspirational! So many wonderful ideas. Lovely to see the juxtaposition of a grand and more modest garden by the same designer.

[@eveburdettequinn9562]

Connected me to an old friend of my youth and now l have my own creation. “Nicklinfields Cottage “.Artists Corner. Eve Burdett Quinn.

[@clambake444]

Bravo. Thanks so much.

[@Knoyle1632]

Edwin Lutyens's sense of humour is ab-SOOO-lutely legendary !! :-) :-) :-) As legendary as his extremely inventive & imaginative architectural vocabulary !! :-o :-o :-o

[@emilyprice8002]

I enjoyed this. Thank you.

[@Knoyle1632]

Hestercombe Gardens Orangery : A small edifice, but a true masterpiece !! :-o :-o :-o

[@Knoyle1632]

Flower power !! Colour power !! :-) :-) :-)

[@blankfaces256]

Thank you, learned loads today and enjoyed the seminar.

[@Knoyle1632]

Just one word : GENIUS !!! :-o :-o :-o

[@eveburdettequinn9562]

Gertrude is like a sister in her history .

[@arthurostrowski9579]

A class act!

[@esthervolkan6946]

My type of hero; would love to meet him in another life of my dreams.

[@Knoyle1632]

Two brilliant Brits !! :-o :-o :-o