Wood and Garden - Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

Gertrude Jekyll

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Originally published in 1899, this early works is illustrated throughout and much of the information is still useful and practical today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Sujets

• Jardinage
• Techniques de jardinage
• Jardin décoratif
• Gardening
• Techniques

Informations

• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 09 mars 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781473360655
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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WOOD AND GARDEN
NOTES AND THOUGHTS, PRACTICAL AND CRITICAL, OF A WORKING AMATEUR
BY
GERTRUDE JEKYLL
With 71 Illustrations from Photographs by the Author


Contents
A Short History of Gardening
PREFACE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
Beauty of woodland in winter — The nut-walk — Thinning the overgrowth — A nut nursery — Iris stylosa — Its culture — Its home in Algeria — Discovery of the white variety — Flowers and branches for indoor decoration.
CHAPTER III
Distant promise of summer — Ivy-berries — Coloured leaves — Berberis Aquifolium — Its many merits — Thinning and pruning shrubs — Lilacs — Removing suckers — Training Clematis flammula — Forms of trees — Juniper, a neglected native evergreen — Effect of snow — Power of recovery — Beauty of colour — Moss-grown stems.
CHAPTER IV
Flowering bulbs — Dog-tooth Violet — Rock-garden — Variety of Rhododendron foliage — A beautiful old kind — Suckers on grafted plants — Plants for filling up the beds — Heaths — Andromedas — Lady Fern — Lilium auratum — Pruning Roses — Training and tying climbing plants — Climbing and free-growing Roses — The Vine the best wall-covering — Other climbers — Wild Clematis — Wild Rose.
CHAPTER V
Woodland spring flowers — Daffodils in the copse — Grape Hyacinths and other spring bulbs — How best to plant them — Flowering shrubs — Rock-plants — Sweet scents of April — Snowy Mespilus, Marsh Marigolds, and other spring flowers — Primrose garden — Pollen of Scotch Fir — Opening seed-pods of Fir and Gorse — Auriculas — Tulips — Small shrubs for rock-garden — Daffodils as cut flowers — Lent Hellebores — Primroses — Leaves of wild Arum.
CHAPTER VI
Cowslips — Morells — Woodruff — Felling oak timber — Trillium and other wood-plants — Lily of the Valley naturalised — Rock-wall flowers — Two good wall-shrubs — Queen wasps — Rhododendrons — Arrangement for colour — Separate colour-groups — Difficulty of choosing — Hardy Azaleas — Grouping flowers that bloom together — Guelder-rose as climber — The garden-wall door — The Pæony garden — Moutans — Pæony varieties — Species desirable for garden.
CHAPTER VII
The gladness of June — The time of Roses — Garden Roses — Reine Blanche — The old white Rose — Old garden Roses as standards — Climbing and rambling Roses — Scotch Briars — Hybrid Perpetuals a difficulty — Tea Roses — Pruning — Sweet Peas, autumn sown — Elder-trees — Virginian Cowslip — Dividing spring-blooming plants — Two best Mulleins — White French Willow — Bracken.
CHAPTER VIII
Scarcity of flowers — Delphiniums — Yuccas — Cottager’s way of protecting tender plants — Alströmerias — Carnations — Gypsophila — Lilium giganteum — Cutting fern-pegs.
CHAPTER IX
Leycesteria — Early recollections — Bank of choice shrubs — Bank of Briar Roses — Hollyhocks — Lavender — Lilies — Bracken and Heaths — The Fern-walk — Late-blooming rock-plants — Autumn flowers — Tea Roses — Fruit of Rosa rugosa — Fungi — Chantarelle.
CHAPTER X
Sowing Sweet Peas — Autumn-sown annuals — Dahlias — Worthless kinds — Staking — Planting the rock-garden — Growing small plants in a wall — The old wall — Dry-walling — How built — How planted — Hyssop — A destructive storm — Berries of Water-elder — Beginning ground-work.
CHAPTER XI
Michaelmas Daisies — Arranging and staking — Spindle-tree — Autumn colour of Azaleas — Quinces — Medlars — Advantage of early planting of shrubs — Careful planting — Pot-bound roots — Cypress hedge — Planting in difficult places — Hardy flower border — Lifting Dahlias — Dividing hardy plants — Dividing tools — Plants difficult to divide — Periwinkles — Sternbergia — Czar Violets — Deep cultivation for Lilium giganteum .
CHAPTER XII
Giant Christmas Rose — Hardy Chrysanthemums — Sheltering tender shrubs — Turfing by inoculation — Transplanting large trees — Sir Henry Steuart’s experience early in the century — Collecting fallen leaves — Preparing grubbing tools — Butcher’s Broom — Alexandrian Laurel — Hollies and Birches — A lesson in planting.
CHAPTER XIII
The woodman at work — Tree-cutting in frosty weather — Preparing sticks and stakes — Winter Jasmine — Ferns in the wood-walk — Winter colour of evergreen shrubs — Copse-cutting — Hoop-making — Tools used — Sizes of hoops — Men camping out — Thatching with hoop-chips — The old thatcher’s bill.
CHAPTER XIV
A well done villa garden — A small town garden — Two delightful gardens of small size — Twenty acres within the walls — A large country house and its garden — Terrace — Lawn — Parterre — Free garden — Kitchen garden — Buildings — Ornamental orchard — Instructive mixed gardens — Mr. Wilson’s at Wisley — A window garden.
CHAPTER XV
The ignorant questioner — Beginning at the end — An example — Personal experience — Absence of outer help — Johns’ “Flowers of the Field” — Collecting plants — Nurseries near London — Wheel-spokes as labels — Garden friends — Mr. Robinson’s “English Flower-Garden” — Mr. Nicholson’s “Dictionary of Gardening” — One main idea desirable — Pictorial treatment — Training in fine art — Adapting from Nature — Study of colour — Ignorant use of the word “artistic.”
CHAPTER XVI
The flower-border — The wall and its occupants — Choisya ternata — Nandina — Canon Ellacombe’s garden — Treatment of colour-masses — Arrangement of plants in the border — Dahlias and Cannas — Covering bare places — The pergola — How made — Suitable climbers — Arbours of trained Planes — Garden houses.
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV


Illustrations
A Wild Juniper.
Scotch Firs Thrown on to Frozen Water by Snowstorm.
Old Juniper, showing former Injuries.
Juniper, lately wrecked by Snowstorm.
Garden Door-way wreathed with Clematis Graveolens.
Cottage Porch wreathed with the Double White Rose (R. alba)
Wild Hop, entwining Wormwood and Cow-Parsnip.
Daffodils in the Copse.
Magnolia stellata.
Daffodils among Junipers where Garden Joins Copse.
Tiarella cordifolia. Height, 12 inches.
Hollyhock, Pink Beauty. Height, 9 feet.
Tulipa Retroflexa.
Late single Tulips, Breeders and Byblœmen.
Trillium in the Wild Garden.
Rhododendrons where the Copse and Garden meet.
Grass Walks through the Copse.
Rhododendrons at the Edge of the Copse.
South side of Door, with Clematis Montana and Choisya.
North side of the same Door, with Clematis Montana and Guelder-Rose.
Free Cluster-Rose as standard in a Cottage Garden.
Double White Scotch Briar.
Part of a Bush of Rosa Polyantha.
Garland-Rose, showing Natural Way of Growth.
Lilac Marie Legraye.
Flowering Elder and Path from Garden to Copse.
The Giant Lily.
Cistus florentinus.
The Great Asphodel.
Lavender Hedge and Steps to the Loft.
Hollyhock, Pink Beauty.
Solomon’s Seal in Spring, in the upper part of the Fern-walk.
The Fern-walk in August.
Jack
The “Old Wall.”
Erinus Alpinus, clothing Steps in Rock-Wall.
Borders of Michaelmas Daisies.
Pens for Storing Dead Leaves.
Careful Wild-Gardening—White Foxgloves at the Edge of the Fir Wood.
Holly Stems in an Old Hedge-Row.
Wild Junipers.
Wild Junipers.
The Woodman.
Grubbing a Tree-stump.
Felling and Grubbing Tools.
Hoop-making in the Woods.
Hoop-shaving.
Shed-roof, thatched with Hoop-chip.
Garland-Rose wreathing the end of a Terrace Wall.
A Roadside Cottage Garden.
A Flower-border in June.
Pathway across the South Border in July.
Outside View of the Brick Pergola shown later in the book after Six Years’ Growth.
End of Flower-border and Entrance of Pergola.
South Border Door and Yuccas in August.
Stone-built Pergola with Wrought Oak Beams.
Pergola with Brick Piers and Beams of Rough Oak.
Evening in the Primrose Garden.
Tall Snapdragons Growing in a Dry Wall.
Mulleins Growing in the Face of Dry Wall.
Geraniums in Neapolitan Pots.
Space in Step and Tank-garden for Lilies, Cannas, and Geraniums.
Hydrangeas in Tubs, in a part of the same Garden.
Mullein (Verbascum phlomoides) at the Edge of the Fir Wood.
A Grass Path in the Copse.


A Short History of Gardening
Gardening is the practice of growing and cultivating plants as part of horticulture more broadly. In most domestic gardens, there are two main sets of plants; ‘ornamental plants’, grown for their flowers, foliage or overall appearance – and ‘useful plants’ such as root vegetables, leaf vegetables, fruits and herbs, grown for consumption or other uses. For many people, gardening is an incredibly relaxing and rewarding pastime, ranging from caring for large fruit orchards to residential yards including lawns, foundation plantings or flora in simple containers. Gardening is separated from farming or forestry more broadly in that it tends to be much more labour-intensive; involving active participation in the growing of plants.
Home-gardening has an incredibly long history, rooted in the ‘forest gardening’ practices of prehistoric times. In the gradual process of families improving their immediate environment, useful tree and vine species were identified, protected and improved whilst undesirable species were eliminated. Eventually foreign species were also selected and incorporated into the ‘gardens.’ It was only after the emergence of the first civilisations that wealthy individuals began to create gardens for aesthetic purposes. Egyptian tomb paintings from around 1500 BC provide some of the earliest physical evidence of ornamental horticulture and landscape design; depicting lotus ponds surrounded by symmetrical rows of acacias and palms. A notable example of an ancient or