The perennial borders and woodland gardens of Gertrude Jekyll's estates for landed clients continue to inspire designers, historians, and enthusiasts today—as do her writings on the seasonal qualities of gardens. Visitors to restored Jekyll landscapes also enjoy the union of building and site supported by her collaborations with like-minded Arts and Crafts architects. Most famous among these was Edwin Lutyens, with whom Jekyll created some of her most famous private works, including her own home at Munstead Wood. While numerous biographers, garden historians, and critics have described and analyzed Jekyll's private commissions, her public work has received little attention. Almost Home: The Public Landscapes of Gertrude Jekyll is the first book to address these projects by England's most recognized and celebrated garden designer and writer. Given the number of private gardens Jekyll created, the range of her public projects is quite surprising: a tuberculosis sanatorium, a village memorial to the radio operator of the Titanic, seven British war cemeteries in Northern France, a memorial to the war dead from one of England's oldest boy's school, and another to the South African soldiers who fought in wwi. Perhaps even more than in her private landscapes, Jekyll's public designs reveal the ability of the garden to symbolize complex themes and to inspire complex emotions. They show how Jekyll's concept of the English landscape and Englishness, which she refined and promulgated in her writing and photography, could be deployed not only within realm of everyday upper classes life, but as the language of health, memorial, and tribute. This book will appeal to designers and landscape, garden, and architectural historians for its new information, never-before-published original drawings, and discussions of her collaborations with noted British architects like Lutyens, Herbert Baker, and Charles Holden. British readers will find interest in these key moments in the history of the nation and the empire, while general readers will enjoy its reflections on the relationships among art, landscape, and cultural values.