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Gertrude Jekyll

Final edition of the three-part history of landscape gardening. Diarmuid Gavin looks at the huge influence of Gertrude Jekyll on today's suburban gardens.

Concluding edition of the three-part history of landscape gardening. Diarmuid Gavin looks at the huge influence of Gertrude Jekyll on today's suburban gardens. At the start of the 20th century, together with a young and brilliant architect, Edwin Lutyens, she created `impressionism in flowers and plants' and became the toast of fashionable society who wanted a new look to their homes and gardens.

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Tue 8 May 2007 19:00

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Presenter Diarmuid Gavin

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