Ornamental Horticulture

Wild garden

This is comparatively a recent style of gardening. The revolutionary concept of ‘wild garden’ was expounded by William Robinson in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The concept of wild garden is not only against all formalism but it also breaks the rule of landscape styles. His main idea was to naturalize plants in shrubberies. He also preached that grass should remain unmowed, as in nature, and few bulbous plants should be grown scattered in the grass to imitate wild scenery. He also suggested that trees, shrubs, and bulbous plants should be planted among the forest flora to fulfill his idea of a wild garden and to allow creepers to grow over the trees naturally imitating those of the forests.