$32.05
- Paperback
194 pages
- Release Date
24 July 2025
Summary
Originally published in 1870, The Wild Garden was a sensation, up-ending the conventions of Victorian garden-making, sweeping away formal ideas and artifice, and replacing it with a naturalistic approach, favouring native plants. William Robinson’s book effectively introduced the idea of the cottage garden and the herbaceous border.
Practical, beautiful and occasionally argumentative, The Wild Garden includes chapters on wild roses, bog gardens and ‘Wild Gardening on…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915068484 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1915068487 |
| Author: | William Robinson, Alice Vincent |
| Publisher: | Little Toller Books |
| Imprint: | Little Toller Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 194 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 258g |
Critics Review
‘One of the classics of gardening…he’sworth listening to today, and noting.’ The Daily Telegraph
’…the boldest attack on unnatural art.’ RobinLane Fox
William Robinson
William Robinson (1838-1945) was an Irish gardener, writer, and journalist. His writing influenced a generation of gardeners and he became a friend and collaborator with Gertrude Jekyll. In 1884 he purchased the Elizabethan house Gravetye Manor, where he worked to transform its gardens.
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