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Book SynopsisWhat Makes a Garden is a thoughtful gardening book by Jinny Blom, one of the world’s leading garden designers.
Trade Review'This is one of the year’s most engrossing, thought-provoking books’ * The English Garden *
'A wunderkammer of a book: so rich and idiosyncratic, its teeming ideas grounded in experience and experiment.'
-- Olivia Laing
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: What is a Garden?
PART 1: HUMANITY1. Civilising the Earth –Culture -
Shared Threads of Interest –Style -
Finding Your Voice2. Pleasure – Paradise Regained –Freedom -
Unfettered Imagination –Positive Influences
–The Physical Body
–The Troubled Mind -
Problems of Isolation3: Five Senses –Scrambled Senses: Synesthesia & Neurodiversity
–Smell -
Scent and Seasonality - Perfumed Gardens –Touch -
Touch in Gardens - Skin - Grass - Weather –Taste -
Oral Pleasures - Tasty Gardens - Plants That Changed the World - Foraged Flavours - Seasonal Forage Plants of Britain –Sound -
Natural Music –Sight -
Art: Colour and Stimulation - Paint - Dyers Colours - Dyers Plants - Choosing Colour - Colour PerceptionPART 2: ALCHEMY4. Prima Materia –Immutable Elements -
Drawings and Models - Tools –Fundamental Elements -
Walls - Fences - Iron Railings - Gates and Doors - Steps - Routes –Surfaces -
Stone Paving - Patterned Stone Floors - Cobbles - Gravel - Terrazzo - Brick and Clay Pavers –Lesser Evils -
Tarmacadam - Concrete and Cement - Play Surfaces –Naturals -
Lawn - Bark - Decking –Drains
–Embellishments -
Little Buildings - Art and Decoration - Water - Play - Utilities5. Anima Mundi –Soil -
In Sickness and in Health - Dung - Soil by Nature - Weeds and Their Indications - Clay Soils - Loam - Sandy Soils - Silt Soils - Chalky Soils - Peat Soils –The Six Kingdoms -
Animalia - Plantae - Fungi - Protista - Archaea/Archaebacteria - Bacteria/Eubacteria –Plagues
–Pests
–The Genesis of Urban Gardens
–Guerilla Gardening
–Cutting Gardens
–Plantsmen
–Propagation
–Plants in Pots
–The Meaning of Flowers
–Self-seeders -
Caring for Plants –Fauna
6. Deconstructing Planting –Four Freshly Made Gardens
–Italy
–England
–Scotland
–City
PART 3: TIME –Moving Through Space
–Seasons
–Light -
Lunar Light - Solar Light - Artificial LightCODA –Further Reading
–Image Credits
–Acknowledgements
