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WILLIAM ROBINSON: The Wild Gardener

WILLIAM ROBINSON: The Wild Gardener RICHARD BISGROVE Book Number: 72681 Product format: Hardback The author of this intriguing volume has a longstanding interest in the relationship between design and plantsmanship and in the social and therapeutic value of plants and green spaces. He has advised on the design and management of gardens in Britain, Europe and America and was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal for 'outstanding contribution to horticultural education, garden design and plant research'. Who better, then, to write about one of the greatest figures in late 19th and early 20th century gardening? William Robinson is best known for his fervent endorsement of 'wild gardening' - including the naturalising of bulbs. His discovery of Alfred Parsons as the ideal artist to illustrate his ideas helped to foster a new era of the 'plantsman's picturesque' and thus to launch the ideal of the English cottage garden, which is apparent in such gardens as Hidcote Manor and Sissinghurst, and has resonated around the world ever since. He began his horticultural career as a garden boy in Ireland and ended it as the owner of over 1,000 acres in Sussex! As a young man, he travelled throughout Britain, then to Paris, the Alps, North Africa and across North America. These experiences led to a constant stream of opinionated publications on subjects ranging from asparagus cultivation to cremation and from the advantages of wood fires to the evils of the bedding-out system. His hugely successful journals, and later his home at Gravetye Manor - now a hotel - provided a platform and focus for other great horticultural names such as Gertrude Jekyll, Frank Crisp, Ellen Willmott and E. A. Bowles. However, Robinson's passions ranged far beyond the garden. As this surprising book shows, he was inspired by great social reformers such as John Ruskin, and urged the gardeners of Britain to improve the lot of the poor by producing cheaper and better food and by creating health-giving green spaces. His views on a sustainable approach to life have important lessons for the 21st century. 256 pages 24cm x 29.5cm illustrated in colour and b/w. Published price: £30 Bibliophile price: £15.00