Wall, Water and Woodland Gardens
The subtitle is With Chapters on the Rock-Garden and the Heath-Garden. Sets out simple ways of ‘using some of the many beautiful mountain plants, and the plants of marsh and water’. It was written from the point of view as she explains to children, that ‘nothing is so delightful as playing with water’.
Many of the illustrations were taken from Country Life and The Garden. Gertrude Jekyll writes, in the preface, the ‘large quantity of illustration is in itself helpful teaching. I like a book with pictures is not only the idle speech of those who open a book in order to enjoy the trivial intellectual tickling of the thing actually represented; but the illustrations are of distinct educational value in that they present aspects of things beautiful, or of matters desirable, much more vividly than can be done by the unpictured text’.