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Garden Design and Architects' Gardens

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Nature, Gardens & Animals

Garden Design and Architects' Gardens

William Robinson

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William Robinson had no patience for gardens ruled by ruler and compass. Here he argues for natural lines over false ones, for the true landscape against stiff formal geometry, and for buildings that sit gracefully among their plantings. A sharp, opinionated manifesto from the champion of the wild garden. For anyone weighing nature against artifice in garden design.

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23 chapters

  1. 1GARDEN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTS' GARDENS
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5GARDEN DESIGN[1]
  6. 6Natural and False Lines
  7. 7"Uncultivated Nature"
  8. 8The True Landscape
  9. 9Buildings in Relation to the Garden
  10. 10Time and Gardens
  11. 11True Use of a Garden
  12. 12Formal Gardening
  13. 13"Nature" and what we mean by it
  14. 14"All our Paths" are Crooked!
  15. 15"The Only Garden Possible!"
  16. 16"No Design in Landscape"
  17. 17No Grass in Landscape Gardening!
  18. 18"Improving" Battersea Park!

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