Wild Garden - Or, Our Groves and Shrubberies Made Beautiful

Klappentext Influential horticulturalist William Robinson called for a more natural English style of garden design in this 1870 book. Zusammenfassung William Robinson (1838–1935) published numerous books on different aspects of gardening. This 1870 work attacks contemporary fashions in public parks and private gardens, which involved showy masses of colour in summer bedding, and calls for a return to the native hardy species found in traditional English gardens. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Explanatory; 2. An enumeration of hardy exotic plants, suitable for naturalization in our woods, semi-wild places, shrubberies, etc., with the native country, general character, height, colour, time of flowering, mode of propagation, and the positions most suitable for each; 3. Selections of hardy exotic plants for naturalization in various positions; 4. The garden of British wild flowers.

Product details

• Authors: William Robinson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.2011
• EAN: 9781108037105
• ISBN: 978-1-108-03710-5
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Botany and Horticulture
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; GARDENING / General, Gardening: plants, Gardening: plants and cultivation guides