Jekyll on Lutyens: the legendary partnership between architect Edwin Lutyens and garden designer Gertrude Jekyll was rooted in the notion that a house and its garden should seem to grow out of the landscape. One hundred years ago this month, House Beautiful published Jekyll's account of Orchards, one of their first and most influential collaborations.(Reprint.)

House Beautiful | February 1, 2003| | Copyright

On the sandy soil of the west Surrey hills, where one of their many valleyfolds runs up to the edge of a half-mile-wide, well-wooded, and sheltered plateau, is this newly built house. The 26 acres of land on which it stands are for the most part of open forest character, with groups of well-grown oaks, and that best of all undergrowth, native bracken. All this has been carefully preserved, so that on three sides the forest land comes up close to the house. Nothing has been done to alter the character of this ground, and only, the better to enjoy it, has one broad grassy glade ...

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