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Cover: 9781910254592 | The Thoughtful Gardener | An Intelligent Approach to Garden Design

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Beschreibung

‘The most romantic, creative person in garden design I know.’ Piet Oudolf

‘Jinny's genius is to marry a beautiful vision to an extraordinary empathy with the landscape into which that vision will fit, resulting in a pastoral harmony second to none’ Victoria, Lady Getty

Prolific designer Jinny Blom embraces a wide variety of styles, from large garden spaces to formal walled gardensand contemporary installations. What defines her work is her skill with plants and her ability to create a garden that responds to the history of the site and the wider landscape. The gardens Jinny creates are as different as their owners and their locations.

In this book, Jinny shares her insight into the creative process she has developed while designing more than 250 gardens around the world. The Thoughtful Gardener contains modern takes on traditional forms, and is split into six sections: seeing, understanding, structuring, harmonising, rooting, and liberating.

All of Jinny's gardens share a commitment to beautiful craftsmanship and considered planting. Structure and detail are important, and receive close attention. The styles vary considerably – logical, calm, beautiful, romantic, naturalistic, formal, sometimes spare – but the principles remain firm. Jinny designs for the long term, with consideration for the environment; these gardens are built to last.

Reflecting Jinny‘s highly individual character, there is plenty of wit and quirkiness alongside the expert knowledge, and it will appeal to the widest audience of garden lovers. Thoughtful and beautiful, yet practical and informative, this book marries artistry with functionality.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Paula Deitz
Waking up

SEEING
Trusting your instincts

UNDERSTANDING
Respecting what you unearth
Geology
The plant matrix
Studying old maps
Case Study: The anti-garden

STRUCTURING
The necessary corsets
Orientation
The fundamentals of planning a layout
Protection
Routes and views
Structures
Walls and boundaries
Green structure
Water
Case Study: An ordered estate

HARMONIZING
Loving the tune
Creating context
Texture and colour
Making things
Art and sculpture
Case Study: Raw and sensitive landscape

ROOTING
The gardener is the garden
Soil
Structuring and layering planting
Trees
Topiary
Shrubs
Climbing plants
Rose gardens
Flowers and subshrubs
Grasses
Ferns
Bulbs, corms and rhizomes
Plant groupings
The kitchen door
Meadows
Hedges
Case Study: Planting in tune with history

LIBERATING
When it is all over, it can begin
Conservation
The art of gardening
The patient protector
Beauty is essential
Down to earth
Case Study: An emancipated landscape

Acknowledgements

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Genre:	Importe
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Hobby & Freizeit
Thema:	Garten & Natur
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Jacqui Small
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781910254592
ISBN-10:	1910254592
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Blom, Jinny
Hersteller:	Quarto Publishing Group USA, Inc. Jacqui Small
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	287 x 243 x 30 mm
Von/Mit:	Jinny Blom
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.03.2017
Gewicht:	1,536 kg