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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Gertrude Jekyll
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(1843–1932) The most distinguished garden designer of her generation. She pioneered the use of flowers and shrubs to create a pleasing profusion and disorder which nevertheless remains firmly within an underlying structure. The charm of cottage gardens was an acknowledged influence. Coming late to gardening (she was primarily a painter until her fifties), she had a long and successful partnership with *Lutyens, who provided the architectural framework in which her plants could run wild but not too wild. One of their first collaborations involved her own home at Munstead Wood in Surrey, where she desiged the garden around the house which he built for in 1895–7.
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