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William Robinson
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William Robinson (1838 to 1935) was an Irish-born gardener and writer who pioneered the wild garden and naturalistic gardening movement in England. His 1870 book The Wild Garden argued for hardy perennial planting in natural drifts through meadow, woodland and waterside settings, a direct reaction against the rigid bedding schemes of Victorian formal gardening. He worked at Gravetye Manor in Sussex and maintained a fifty-year friendship and working partnership with the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll.
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Defining ContributionFounder of the wild garden and naturalistic planting style; his book and garden designs were closely associated with the Arts and Crafts style houses of the cottage garden movement. 2 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Robinson championed the wild, natural planting style against formal Victorian bedding; Jekyll herself credited him with putting hardy-plant gardening within easy reach of ordinary gardeners.
Robinson's 1870 book The Wild Garden is treated as the movement's founding text
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