What Makes a Garden

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