july irish practical journalist ideas wild spurred movement led english cottage garden parallel search honest simplicity vernacular style crafts movement robinson credited early mixed border hardy perennial plants champion wild garden high victorian pattern garden planted schemes robinson new approach gained popularity magazines books particularly wild garden illustrated english flower garden robinson advocated natural formal looking hardy shrubs reacted high victorian patterned tropical materials grown standard roses italian gardens common time modern practices introduced robinson include alpine plants rock gardens dense expose bare soil use hardy native plants large natural looking life career robinson began garden work early age garden boy county went estate irish county sir charge large number age according account result bitter quarrel cold winter night let fires killing valuable plants accounts consider story gross greenhouse incident robinson left dublin influence head botanical garden family friend helped find work botanical gardens regent park london given responsibility hardy plants british time gardens designed planted vast numbers greenhouse flowers mass robinson wrote easy away false art work native british plants allow away countryside began idea taught boy school gardens beauty native flowers trees writing age fellow society sponsorship seven distinguished months later left write chronicle times represented leading firm paris exhibition began writing publications beginning parks gardens gardens launched journal simply named garden years included contributions holmes influential books wild garden reputation allowed start magazine garden english flower garden revised edition edition included contributions lifelong friend later edited garden couple years contributed articles publications included met accord design principles maintained close friendship professional association years helped garden wood provided plants garden wrote robinson english represented innate system chose work live better known treasures lying neglected time overthrow system mainly owing clear knowledge world hardy plant beauty placed easy reach care acquire virtually dead robinson published god acre beautiful applied aesthetic urban campaign included trying win unwilling public advantages burial freely shared stories happened certain crowded instrumental founding designed gardens replaced traditional victorian mourning graveyard open lawn woodland gardens writing career financial success robinson able purchase near sussex acres km2 rich pasture woodland diary planting care published years work round old find practical robinson ideas natural style eventually grow nearly acres km2 estate managed woodland giving robinson opportunity plant edges cleared spaces woods robinson established japanese lily grass shrubs closer house flower beds planted red allowed spread naturally paving robinson planted thousands annually including planted lakes years added hundreds trees american friends features included oval shaped walled kitchen garden heather garden water garden largest collections water europe robinson invited known painters portray landscape including english landscape botanical painter moon parsons illustrated robinson works robinson death left left derelict years leased refurbished gardens replacing flower beds lawn today serves hotel restaurant long term impact magazines books robinson challenged traditions introduced new ideas commonplace today linked introducing border referred older mixed border included mixture shrubs hardy half hardy plants advocated dense left bare soil spaces taller plants filled commonly called ground cover plants rose garden filled roses following visit alps robinson wrote gardens time showed use alpine plants designed rock garden significant influence introduction idea wild appeared wild garden developed english flower garden idea introducing large native hardy perennial plants meadow taken granted today revolutionary robinson time edition happily plant including half hardy natives parts world robinson wild garden limited locally native species robinson garden planted large scale wild garden idea realised small yards garden designed appear merge surrounding woodland meadow robinson ideas continue influence landscape architects today home cottage gardens large estate public gardens wild garden robinson set forth fresh principles expanded idea garden introduced themes techniques taken granted today notably robinson audience owners intensely suburban plots country cottages seeking nostalgic atmosphere robinson concerned immediate surroundings english country house robinson wild garden brought edges garden blended larger landscape garden picture meadow water edge woodland edges openings hardy plants robinson endorsed natives means chapters devoted hardy plants temperate climate zones appropriate schemes preferred small delicate ones peninsula included rampant north_america long familiar english gardens robinson wild approach refer letting gardens return natural state taught specific method aesthetic nature plants habit growth cultural preferences dictated free design human intervention kept sense robinson book brought attention plants eclipsed decline 1820s use tender color patterned schemes mid century book popularity largely robinson promise wild easy beautiful use hardy expensive offer variety frequent mass planting greenhouse followed nature considered source true design english flower garden english flower garden robinson laid principles art robinson source inspiration simple cottage garden long neglected fashionable english flower garden rejected artificial formal specifically carpet comparing modern garden wall paper carpet straight lines form gardens seen robinson carry dead lines builder garden admired nature diversity promoted smaller roses plants woodland plants winter flowers robinson compared art wrote chapter follow true artist respect things delight natural form beauty flower tree free barren geometry gardens true pictures artist work preserve pictures beauty landscape tree flower far natural beauty living things english flower garden covered garden design approach individual stereotypical best kind garden grows situation grows cool bank second covered individual plants hardy half hardy showing artistic natural use plant articles included garden chapters contributed leading day including contributed chapter colour flower garden book published definitive edition published robinson lifetime book found increasing popularity editions life years english flower garden considered bible
William Robinson (gardener)