{"id":11275,"date":"2025-12-21T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T09:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=11275"},"modified":"2025-12-21T09:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T09:29:07","slug":"gertrude-jekyll-border-in-greenwich-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/gertrude-jekyll-border-in-greenwich-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Gertrude Jekyll border in Greenwich Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"305\" data-end=\"559\">Greenwich Park\u2019s great herbaceous border is one of London\u2019s most prominent planting schemes \u2014 admired, well cared for, and widely photographed. But could it also become a living demonstration of one of the most influential ideas in British garden design?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"561\" data-end=\"801\">I\u2019ve written a short article suggesting how Gertrude Jekyll\u2019s colour planning \u2014 inspired by JMW Turner\u2019s paintings \u2014 might offer a fresh, historically grounded way of thinking about the border\u2019s future, without erasing its present achievements.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"943\" data-end=\"963\">\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/greenwich-park-herbaceous-border-case-gertrude-jekyll-tom-turner-q9noe\"><em data-start=\"946\" data-end=\"963\">Link to article on LinkedIn<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"965\" data-end=\"1065\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">#LandscapeArchitecture #GardenDesign #GreenwichPark #GertrudeJekyll #PlantingDesign #HistoricGardens<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11276\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/greenwich_park_jekyll__border.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11276\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11276\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/greenwich_park_jekyll__border-1024x572.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/greenwich_park_jekyll__border-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/greenwich_park_jekyll__border-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/greenwich_park_jekyll__border-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/greenwich_park_jekyll__border-1536x858.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/greenwich_park_jekyll__border-624x349.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/greenwich_park_jekyll__border.jpg 1794w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposal for a Gertrude Jekyll Border in Greenwich Park<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwich Park\u2019s great herbaceous border is one of London\u2019s most prominent planting schemes \u2014 admired, well cared for, and widely photographed. But could it also become a living demonstration of one of the most influential ideas in British garden design? I\u2019ve written a short article suggesting how Gertrude Jekyll\u2019s colour planning \u2014 inspired by JMW [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11277,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11275\/revisions\/11277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}