Gertrude Jekyll

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.