Jinny Blom

What Makes a Garden (eBook, ePUB)

A considered approach to garden design

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'One of the year's most engrossing, thought-provoking books' The English Garden A reflective second book by Jinny Blom (author of The Thoughtful Garden), one of the world's leading garden designers. What Makes a Garden builds upon the work of The Thoughtful Garden, giving a broader idea of how she thinks about garden design. In particular it emphasizes her multi-disciplinary approach, which embraces architecture, conservation and art, coupled with a strong holistic thread. This fascinating and insightful book looks at how a garden should please all five senses; how it is an alchemical mix of the inanimate and the living; and also how it has to accommodate both the effects of time and the influences of culture. This is not intended as a book of rules but rather a way of thinking about garden design and making sure it responds to the particularities of place, the culture and the demands of the client. Drawing on her work and experience over the last 20 years or so, the book gets to the heart of what people want and need from a garden and what makes it different from a natural landscape. Reflecting Jinny's highly individual approach to garden design, the book is filled with warmth and character alongside her expert knowledge. With a broad appeal, this beautiful book is for all garden lovers: thoughtful yet practical and informative, it marries artistry with functionality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Frances Lincoln
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780711282964
• Artikelnr.: 67569774

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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