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Restoring wellness --
Garden design --
The forest garden --
Alternative management practices.
FY2018 /
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The Garden Awakening is a garden design book with a difference. Drawing inspiration from long-forgotten Irish gardening traditions, Mary Reynolds re-imagines gardens as spaces that work in harmony with nature. Under Mary's gentle guidance you can awaken your garden, nuturing the land to become a beautiful natural space. The Garden Awakening provides: inspiration for garden designs that are in harmony with nature, practical ideas and guidance for creating and maintaining your garden, advice on creating a spiritual space in your garden. Whether you want to bring the energy and atmosphere of wild places into your own garden, are interested in permaculture and forest gardening, or want to create a spiritual space, this book will guide you in embracing the wild way.… (more)
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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
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.