Judith B. Tankard

Absorbing and readable ... a genuine classic. The Lady A must for understanding the woman, her work and her time. American Gardener [A] delicious volume by two leading experts ... explains the processes and the very human side of a garden designer whose legacy endures. Country Life Gertrude Jekyll, one of the most influential garden designers of the early twentieth...

The only monograph to chronicle the life and work of one of the most important figures in American landscape architecture. Beatrix Farrand, the only female founder of the American Society of Landscape Architects, is one of the most important landscape architects of the early twentieth century. Today the scope of her work and her influence on the profession are widely...

First published in the UK in 1996, this Pimpernel Classic edition has been redesigned and includes new photography. Gertrude Jekyll was probably the most influential garden designer of the early twentieth century. In this book, Judith Tankard and Martin Wood explore her life and work at the home she created for herself at Munstead Wood in Surrey, England. Taking as...