The Garden Club of America Collection, which was donated in 1992, includes documentation of landscape architects such as Marian Coffin, Lawrence Halprin, Beatrix Farrand, Hare & Hare, Gertrude Jekyll, Umberto Innocenti, Jens Jensen, Charles Platt, Ellen Biddle Shipman, and Fletcher Steele.
Jekyll was born at 2 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London, the fifth of the seven children of Captain Edward Joseph Hill Jekyll, an officer in the Grenadier Guards, and his wife Julia Hammersley.
It was a relatively unknown landscaping plant until the 1990s, despite being mentioned by well known landscape authors such as Gertrude Jekyll and Russell Page.
McKenna was married in 1908 to Pamela Jekyll (who died November 1943), younger daughter of Sir Herbert Jekyll, KCMG (brother of landscape gardener Gertrude Jekyll) and his wife Lady Agnes Jekyll, née Graham.
Also adjoining the churchyard is Deanery Gardens, an early 20th-century Edwin Lutyens house with a Gertrude Jekyll garden, well hidden by high walls apart from a good view from the top of the church tower.
Gertrude Stein | Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Gertrude Dunn | Gertrude Lawrence | Gertrude Berg | Saint Gertrude | Gertrude | Gertrude Jekyll | Gertrude Bell | Gertrude Atherton | Jekyll Island | Gertrude (Hamlet) | The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll | Gertrude B. Elion | Gertrude Tuckwell | Gertrude the Great | Gertrude of Nivelles | Gertrude of Flanders, Duchess of Lorraine | Gertrude of Brunswick | Gertrude Kleinová | Gertrude Himmelfarb | The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll | St. Gertrude Roman Catholic Church | Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde | Jekyll Island Club | Gertrude Warner | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney | Gertrude Simmons Burlingham | Gertrude Sanford Legendre | Gertrude Psalter |
His early garden plans are generally in the English Arts and crafts style of Gertrude Jekyll, Reginald Blomfield, and T. H. Mawson, but ornamented with Italianate detailing such as balustrades, hedges, urns, statuary, stone pineapples, and flights of water steps.
One part of the house features a garden designed by Edwin Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll in 1911.