THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN AND HOME GROUNDS OF HARDY TREES AND FLOWERS ONLY by Robinson, W. [William] - 1933

John Murray, 1906. Tenth Edition. Hard cover. Very Good. Some light foxing. Bound in blue cloth with gilt decorations of flower on front cover. William Robinson FLS (5 July 1838 – 17 May 1935) was an Irish practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that led to the popularizing of the English cottage garden, a parallel to the search for honest simplicity and vernacular style of the British Arts and Crafts movement and were important in promoting the woodland garden. In The English Flower Garden, Robinson laid down the principles that revolutionised the art of gardening. Robinson's source of inspiration was the simple cottage garden, long neglected by the fashionable landscapists. In The English Flower Garden he rejected the artificial and the formal, specifically statuary, topiary, carpet bedding, and waterworks—comparing the modern garden to "the lifeless formality of wall-paper or carpet." The straight… Read More

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