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    The Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture Our Land and Ourselves

    By Mary Reynolds

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    An award-winning garden designer's unique union of a practical how-to book with stories and philosophy

    The Garden Awakening is a step-by-step manual to creating a garden in harmony with the life force in the earth, addressing not only what the people in charge of the land want but also asking what the land wants to become. Mary Reynolds demonstrates how to create a groundbreaking garden that is not simply a solitary space but an expanding, living, interconnected ecosystem. Drawing on old Irish ways and methods of working with the land, this beautiful book is both art and inspiration for any garden lover seeking to create a positive, natural space.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreen Books
    Release dateSep 1, 2016
    ISBN9780857843142
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    The Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture Our Land and Ourselves
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    Mary Reynolds

    Mary Reynolds is an Irish garden and landscape designer known for her wild garden at Kew Royal Botanical Gardens in London (2003 - 2008). She is the youngest ever woman to win a gold medal at Chelsea Flower Show and her life has been the inspiration for the film Dare to be Wild.

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    • 4/5
      I liked it, I would love if many of the ideas would work but in my postage stamp garden a lot of this is fantasy. This is also not a book for a part-time gardener, or the "occasionally when I have the energy and it isn't teaming down" gardener like me, this is a book for someone who wants to transform their garden into an idyll. She is a person who believes in the genus loci and in communing with them and this may really not appeal to some (some may refer to this as woo, I'm not opposed to this but YMMV). Some of her comments are interesting in light of 70% or so decrease in insect life and I'm sure if you could follow some of her precepts you'd have a very sustainable garden. I'm happy with my 4 bottles of Grape Jelly from my back yard, abundance of lavender and delicious strawberries, I would like it to be better but don't have the time or energy to follow her.
    • 5/5
      Absolutely magical book that I put now among my most beloved books. Mary Reynolds speaks right to my gardening heart as if we have been friends for years. Even the smallest of details resonate with me. The Garden Awakening is a combination of storytelling, mysticism, and common sense that left me energized and hopeful that we can nurture this land and ourselves back to a sustainable serenity in which we can all thrive.