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The English Flower Garden
A second title in the BLOOMSBURY GARDENING CLASSICS series. This is a new edition of the text which looks at alternative garden designs to those established by the Victorians. The author was particularly well-known for his wild garden designs.
286 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1883
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William Robinson
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William Robinson was an Irish practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that evolved into the natural garden, a parallel to the search for honest simplicity and vernacular style of the British Arts and Crafts movement.
He emigrated from Ireland at a young age and was rapidly welcomed into the top echelons of British horticulture and botany. By 1866 he was a Fellow in the Linnean Society, sponsored by his friend Charles Darwin. Already an expert on the flora of the British Isles, Robinson travelled the breadth of North America by train in 1870, observing regional habitats and forging lasting connections with Charles Sargeant, Asa Gray, Frederick Law Olmsted, and others of their stature. Robinson was just thirty-two when he first published The Wild Garden, which has proved to be the most insightful, influential, and enduring of his many books and journals. Robinson's brilliance and enormous personal energy enabled him to become one of the most accomplished gardeners, editors and publishers of his era, and he is often referred to as the Father of the English Flower Garden.
William Robinson was an Irish practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that evolved into the natural garden, a parallel to the search for honest simplicity and vernacular style of the British Arts and Crafts movement.
He emigrated from Ireland at a young age and was rapidly welcomed into the top echelons of British horticulture and botany. By 1866 he was a Fellow in the Linnean Society, sponsored by his friend Charles Darwin. Already an expert on the flora of the British Isles, Robinson travelled the breadth of North America by train in 1870, observing regional habitats and forging lasting connections with Charles Sargeant, Asa Gray, Frederick Law Olmsted, and others of their stature. Robinson was just thirty-two when he first published The Wild Garden, which has proved to be the most insightful, influential, and enduring of his many books and journals. Robinson's brilliance and enormous personal energy enabled him to become one of the most accomplished gardeners, editors and publishers of his era, and he is often referred to as the Father of the English Flower Garden.
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April 14, 2024
There some good ideas and advices but it's also very pompous on what it great or not and pictures or drawing here and there could have help to get the points across better.
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