Gardens Outside Britain
Parc Floral des Moutiers, France
Parc Floral des Moutiers, Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France. Property of the French banking family, Mallet. Description in English (with photograph of Lutyens house) or in French. Jekyll influence on garden.
Glebe House, Connecticut, USA
Glebe House, Woodbury, Connecticut, USA. An old house, part of it going back to 1690, it was at one time home of the Bishop of Connecticut. It is one of three gardens designed by Gertrude Jekyll in America; restored in the 1990s, it is open to visitors.
1914 Elmhurst, Ohio, pictured, for Mr Glendinning B Groesbeck
1925 Cotswold Cottage, Greenwich, Connecticut, for Mr Stanley Resor
Gertrude Jekyll never visited America. Since 1904, aged 60 and with poor eyesight, she scarcely ever left home, designing her gardens from a distance by meticulous correspondence and at the same time running a busy nursery business. Clients, including American ones, used to come to tea with her at Munstead Wood and enjoyed their visits. Her books were published and widely read in the USA. She wrote articles for American gardening journals. As a result, she became very well known in America and has been influential in garden design circles. She received awards from The Garden Club of America, The Massachusetts Horticultural Society and others. A full description of her American gardens is to be found in Primrose Arnander’s and Michael Tooley’s book
After her death, a considerable proportion of her archive, including many garden plans, found its way to the University of California, Berkeley, mainly through the bequest of Beatrix Jones Farrand, the US gardener and garden designer, who had acquired them. Much of it can be viewed on the university web site. Her life and work are described in Jane Brown’s Beatrix-The gardening life of Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959).