Hidden in the English countryside of Sussex sits Gravetye Manor, a historic Elizabethan property surrounded by a gorgeous 35-acre garden. Now a luxury hotel, Gravetye was once home to one of the most influential horticulturalists and garden writers of the 19th and early 20th Century, William Robinson.
When William acquired the property in 1884, it was just the beginning of his 50 years of garden experimentation. As the only garden he ever built, this is where he laid down principles of wild gardening, created one of England's most astounding kitchen gardens, and set out a style rebelling against Victorian garden norms, something that hugely influenced the Arts and Crafts Gardens movement.
