The Wild Garden: Or, Our Groves and Shrubberies Made Beautiful

William Robinson

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139095495

An Irish-born gardener and writer, William Robinson (1838–1935) travelled widely to study gardens and gardening in Europe and America. He founded a weekly illustrated periodical, The Garden, in 1871, which he owned until 1919, and published numerous books on different aspects of horticulture. His most famous book, The English Flower Garden (also reprinted in this series), was published in 1883, and fifteen editions were issued in his lifetime. The Wild Garden, published in 1870, attacks contemporary fashions in public parks and private gardens, which involved showy masses of colour in labour-intensive summer bedding, using mostly subtropical and exotic species. He calls for a return to native species, found in traditional English gardens, pointing out that these are more economical than short-lived annuals, and that there is much greater variety available to the garden designer. He suggests plants more suitable for the English climate, and exotics more capable of naturalisation.

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Or, Our Groves and Shrubberies Made Beautiful

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Dedication
pp vii-viii

PART I - EXPLANATORY
pp 1-2

THE WILD GARDEN
pp 3-40

PART II - AN ENUMERATION OF HARDY EXOTIC PLANTS, SUITABLE FOR NATURALIZATION IN OUR WOODS, SEMI-WILD PLACES, SHRUBBERIES, &C, WITH THE NATIVE COUNTRY, GENERAL CHARACTER, HEIGHT, COLOUR, TIME OF FLOWERING, MODE OF PROPAGATING, AND THE POSITIONS MOST SUITABLE FOR EACH
pp 41-42

HARDY EXOTIC PLANTS
pp 43-122

PART III - SELECTIONS OF HARDY EXOTIC PLANTS FOR NATURALIZATION IN VARIOUS POSITIONS
pp 123-124

SELECTIONS
pp 125-154

PART IV - THE GARDEN OF BRITISH WILD FLOWERS
pp 155-156

THE GARDEN OF BRITISH WILD FLOWERS
pp 157-236

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