Horticultural Heroines Limited Edition Corten Steel Silhouettes

Price range: £250.00 through £2,200.00

Gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll

Initially an artist and craftswoman, Gertrude Jekyll took up gardening when her eyesight became too weak to continue painting. She worked with William Robinson, together they promoted naturalistic planting, introduced the herbaceous border and cottage-garden planting. Later she worked with the architect Edward Lutyens to produce houses where the garden was an integral part of the house’s design and her planting schemes were painterly, beautiful and harmonious.

Miss Ellen Willmott

Miss Ellen Willmott

Miss Ellen Willmott was the first woman to be awarded the RHS Medal; she also helped to bring Wisley gardens, the RHS’s first garden, into being. She inherited a fortune and she spent it on plants and gardens. Miss Willmott funded plant collecting expeditions, bred numerous daffodils and other species and wrote the definitive book of her day on Roses in two volumes. She was an early photographer – of gardens. More than two hundred plants and varieties are named after her or after her garden at Warley Place, Essex.

Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West

The most famous garden created by Vita Sackville-West was her second, at Sissinghurst, now run by the National Trust. She followed many of the principles of Gertrude Jekyll – coloured by the influence of her travels with her diplomat husband. His skill in designing the hard landscapes was key. The garden is divided into intimate ‘rooms’ the most famous of which, the White Garden, is full of the perfume of Nicotiana and jasmine at dusk. The garden is influential as the smaller scale of the ‘rooms’ is adaptable into many settings, & its romance is infectious.

Beth Chatto

Beth Chatto

Beth Chatto took on waste land to make her garden: part was boggy, part a ridge of gravel in Essex, one of the driest parts of England. Her approach was to choose the right plants for each habitat. This resulted in wonderful award-winning gardens which inspired her books; ‘The Dry Garden’ is probably the best known – a book which seems to become more relevant as each summer arrives. She won 10 RHS gold medals at shows, and unlike Gertrude Jekyll and Miss Willmott, her garden survives.

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Description

These Horticultural Heroines Limited Edition Corten Steel Silhouettes are produced in Corten steel in two different sizes:

For the Garden size each silhouette is 60 cm high, produced in 1.5 mm thick Corten steel, and is mounted on a 65cm long steel stake.

For the Large Garden size each silhouette is 100 cm high, produced in 3 mm thick Corten steel, and is mounted on a 65cm long steel stake.

 

These Horticultural Heroines Limited Edition Corten Steel Silhouettes are manufactured in the UK from original line drawings by Alison Warner and were introduced at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026.

We provide free shipping to UK mainland locations.

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Made in Britain

 

Weights (excluding the steel stake)

The Garden size silhouettes weigh between 1 and 1.5kg and the Large Garden size silhouettes weigh between 4 and 7kg.

Assembly

We provide all Horticultural Heroines in two parts – the silhouette and a steel rod that fastens to the silhouette with a supplied Allen key fixing. The steel rod is then pushed into the ground in your desired garden location.

Additional information

Weight40 kg
Dimensions60 × 60 × 2000 cm
Horticultural Heroine

Gertrude Jekyll, Miss Ellen Willmott, Vita Sackville-West, Beth Chatto, Set of four

Size

Garden, Large Garden