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Select wild species from around the world are combined to achieve the Wild Garden’s planted-by-nature effect. Intensive cultivation yields abundant abandon: the yews are pruned two times each year to maintain their billowing, cloudlike forms and self-sowing annuals and perennials are selectively edited. The meandering path’s changing materials and elevations guide a visitor’s steps toward the most advantageous views. A hillside garden and gazebo have existed in this location at Wave Hill since at least 1915, and the area has undergone extensive replantings since 1969. The Wild Garden is inspired by the informally planted English wild garden as championed by the Irish writer William Robinson (1838-1935), an influential nineteenth-century garden designer.
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