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‘Munstead Flower Glasses’: lovers of Gertrude Jekyll’s style may want to own one or more of these vases. She designed and commissioned them when she failed to find flower vases that met her exacting standards. She used them to display the flowers grown in her garden at Munstead Wood, Surrey, and they feature in many of her photographs; she was a skilled photographer. In 1903, her designs were rewarded with silver and bronze medals from The Royal Horticultural Society and National Rose Society. The new range of these flower vases have been developed by one of her great great nieces and are exactly based on her original designs; they are manufactured to a high standard in Portugal. Details http://gertrudejekylldesigns.com

Munstead Wood the  house built for her by Edwin Lutyens in 1898, which remained her home till the end of her life in 1932, was acquired by the National Trust in 2023. For admirers of Gertrude Jekyll, this has been a marvellous piece of news and plans for its best usage will evolve during the course of 2024 and 2025.