Acknowledgements Foreword by Larry Korn Introduction I. Restoring Wellness Sacred Spaces Nature is Stronger than Nurture Finding Your Roots Restoring Health to your Land II. Garden Design Gardens as expressions of beauty The five elements for designing gardens in partnership with nature Design element 1: The tool of intention. Magic uncloaked Design element 2: Selecting areas to hold specific intentions Design element 3: Designing with the patterns and shapes of nature Design element 4: The power of symbols and imagery Design element 5: Putting your design on paper III. The Forest Garden Forging an alliance Listen I Never Liked Planting Plans Grow Your Own Forest Gardening Successional Planting Forest Gardening in Steps The Seven Layers of a Forest Garden Bees for Life Joe IV. Alternative Management Practices Mulching Ways to Clear the Land Lawns and Lawn Maintenance Pest Control Natural Remedies Tonics, Fertilizers, Potting Mixtures and Tree Protection The Cultivation and Care of Trees Resources Index
Illustrated throughout, this charming book describes how to nurture a beautiful space using permaculture and forest gardening designs.
Mary Reynolds is the youngest woman to win a gold medal at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show. She is an Irish garden and landscape designer, famous for her wild gardens at Kew Royal Botanical Gardens in London and worldwide. Her life has been the inspiration for a film: Dare to be Wild.
This is a fantastic book... I absolutely love the way that [it]
captures the spirituality of the land and the magic of nature.
*Jane Goodall, anthropologist and primatologist*
The Garden Awakening re-awakens sweet memories of my childhood and
a love for nature. Mary Reynolds book is like an inspirational
‘clarion call’ to all of us humans to reconnect again with nature,
where many of us are caught and suffocate in a pressurized,
exploitative, dysfunctional concrete jungle.
*Duncan Stewart, eco-architect, environmentalist & TV
presenter*
A new manifesto for working with nature, The Garden Awakening seeks
to re-establish our vital link with the world they live in. Mary
Reynolds knows there is more, much more, to the outdoors than
pretty gardens and her new book sets to show how you can unlock
nature’s secrets by immersion in what’s around you.
*Jim Carroll, journalist, writer and broadcaster*
Gifted with the Irish heritage of great story-telling, Mary weaves
a fine tapestry of stories instilled with ancient druidic wisdom,
which she offers helpful practical ways of applying in the modern
world. The Garden Awakening is a truly wonderful and highly
inspiring read.
*Markéta Irglová, Grammy and Oscar winning singer
songwriter/actor*
Mary Reynolds weaves a wonderful tapestry in which the garden is
not only a resilient, productive and healthy space that provides
food, it is also a magical place of beauty, peace and inner
nurture.
*Maddy Harland, Permanent Publications*
Mary Reynolds has been appointed a guide, something she possibly
didn’t ask for, but that’s been bestowed upon her capable
shoulders.... She connects back to a deep past, to a timeless
growth and regrowth, to the natural, to the voices moving in the
land, to a church not made by hands.
*Glen Hansard, Grammy and Oscar winning singer songwriter and
actor*
Mary Reynolds is not really a garden designer: at least not in the
same way that the rest of us are garden designers. She is a
custodian of the earth, a creature of the forest and, above all, a
creative spirit whose work is so deeply anchored to the earth that
her gardens are always a partnership rather than an imposition. In
this book she explains her philosophy, her life and her dreams. You
need to listen to her voice as what she says makes perfect
sense.
*James Alexander-Sinclair – RHS judge and television presenter*
The Garden Awakening has woken me up. Beautifully written with a
message that will open your eyes to a whole new outside world. A
revelation. Mary Reynolds preaches harmony. You will be a
convert.
*Eoin Colfer, writer of the Artemis Fowl series*
The Garden Awakening offers a treasury of insight and advice for
anyone who feels that our culture’s relationship to land has
profoundly lost its way and is seeking new inspiration. Her skilful
drawing together of history and beauty, her acute appreciation of
place, and her belief in taking nature as the model for how we
design, together offer us something that feels deeply right and
utterly timely.
*Rob Hopkins, author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff*
Garnering insight from permaculture, biodynamics, and her own
wonderful weird, [Mary] shows how to deepen the conversation until
it becomes both profound and ecstatic. The Garden Awakening reminds
us that the natural but hidden connections between soil and soul
are at once familiar, comfortable, and sovereign.
*Peter Bane – Author ‘The Permaculture Handbook: Garden Farming for
Town and Country’ www.permaculturehandbook.com*
Brims with poetry and mythology and psychology and algebra and
geometry and ancient symbols and dream-like parables and other
unexpected things. In [Mary's] hands the wounded earth becomes a
living, breathing creature: it sighs and moans and remembers. We
really should sit up and take notice she tells us – the earth won’t
forget.
*Billy Roche, playwright and actor*
The Garden Awakening performs the miracle of waking up and engaging
someone like me with no prior interest in gardens; in fact, showing
me an idea of the garden quite unlike anything I had ever imagined.
This book is not only strikingly original, but lucid, inspiring and
soundly practical.
*Gillies MacKinnon, film director, writer and artist*
The Garden Awakening by Mary Reynolds has put into words what
gardeners feel they should be doing and know to be true but society
doesn’t encourage this way of thinking. Mary has tuned into nature
and articulated it better than I have ever read before. Every
gardener needs to read this book to empowered themselves to do what
their heart desires.
*Fergal Smith, pro-surfer turned organic farmer*
Marvellous... I loved this book and feel that with each passing
year it will become more important... a remarkable, inspirational
and admirable woman has written a book that should be essential
reading for everyone interested in the real meaning of wellbeing in
its widest sense.
*Sir Tim Smit, co-founder of the Eden Project*
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