What Makes a Garden is a thoughtful gardening book by Jinny Blom, one of the worldâ s leading garden designers.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jinny Blom is a leading garden designer who began her London based landscape design practice in 2000. Jinny works on a wide range of projects and has designed hundreds of gardens all over the world. Her innovative and uniquely thoughtful work has been much lauded and featured in the press internationally. She has designed four award-winning gardens for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and was awarded the coveted gold medal in 2007; along with silver-gilts in 2002 (for her ‘Healing Garden’ developed in collaboration with The Prince of Wales); in 2006 (for Laurent-Perrier); and in 2013 (for her creation commissioned by Prince Harry’s charity, Sentebale). The great-granddaughter of an Impressionist painter, Jinny had a Liberal Arts education in the UK. She trained and practised as a transpersonal psychologist and psychotherapist, working for many years in mental health. In 1996 she chose to devote herself to her lifelong interest in natural landscapes and gardens. She has been a columnist for The Times, contributed regularly to radio and television worldwide, and in 2002 won BBC Radio Broadcaster of the Year for her Radio 4 Woman’s Hour features. Jinny has been nominated Woman of the Year an unprecedented three times - in 2002, 2007 and 2013 - for her services to society including her role as Artist in Residence at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital.
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INTRODUCTION: What is a Garden? PART 1: HUMANITY 1. Civilising the Earth –Culture Shared Threads of Interest –Style Finding Your Voice 2. Pleasure – Paradise Regained –Freedom Unfettered Imagination –Positive Influences –The Physical Body –The Troubled Mind Problems of Isolation 3: 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 Perception PART 2: ALCHEMY 4. 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 Utilities 5. 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 Light CODA –Further Reading –Image Credits –Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION: What is a Garden? PART 1: HUMANITY 1. Civilising the Earth –Culture Shared Threads of Interest –Style Finding Your Voice 2. Pleasure – Paradise Regained –Freedom Unfettered Imagination –Positive Influences –The Physical Body –The Troubled Mind Problems of Isolation 3: 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 Perception PART 2: ALCHEMY 4. 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 Utilities 5. 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 Light CODA –Further Reading –Image Credits –Acknowledgements
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