Description: This charming book, first published in 1912 by Country Life, typifies the Arts and Crafts Movement in its portrayal of country house architecture and the making of their gardens. Gertrude Jekyll and Lawrence Weaver came together at Country Life magazine. Gertrude Jekyll was art school trained, practical and into her second life as a gardener. She was Country Life's authority on the 'order and beauty of the woodland and garden.' Lawrence Weaver was a professional architect and Architectural Editor, with an immense eye for detail and the intricacies of fine craftsmanship. There is no doubt that in collaborating to write this book, the two authors complemented each other in an area of common ground where they revelled in their mutual intuitive, artistic and historic gardening ideas. For its craftsmanship and planting relationships, as well as in its use as a practical handbook, invaluable for the restoration of gardens, readers of this book will find it no less pertinent to the present than when it was first published. Many of Gertrude Jekyll's works are available from the Antique Collectors' Club.

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