The Thoughtful Gardener, Jinny Blom

The Thoughtful Gardener

An Intelligent Approach to Garden Design

Extract from The Thoughtful Gardener: No garden can comfortably survive without a strong skeletal structure. Having walked the site and breathed in its character it is time to set to work with pencil and paper and consider the bones. Drawing a plan by hand evokes every aspect of the developing garden in your mind’s eye. The pace and rhythm of the garden spaces, the views, the practicalities all settle into their rightful place. In shaping a plan all the real and invented intentions emerge. This is how the beauty of a place is uncovered and made real.

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The Thoughtful Gardener, Jinny Blom

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‘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
‘(She) is a bona fide horticultural celebrity.’
Wall Street Journal
‘Written with wit and insight, it sets out an approach to design that is intuitive, thoughtful and holistic – a philosophy that is clearly successful and clearly manifest in this designer’s beautifully executed gardens. It is a book that will make you think about design, about landscape and nature, and about the benefits of engaging with a garden yourself.’
House & Garden
‘The Thoughtful Gardener, at once a lavishly illustrated coffee-table tome and a friendly hands-on primer, offers a glimpse into some of the most magical gardens in the world…’
Architectural Digest US
‘Landscaper Jinny Blom’s long-awaited book is so beautiful that you will not want to rush it. As the title suggests, there is more to this than lovely photography: the pages of The Thoughtful Gardener will stop you in your tracks and make you think about the potential of gardens, in a way that has never struck you before.’
Gardenista
‘Alas, the world has been offered a publication on garden design that is written in neither a cookbook nor a “how to” format. Rather, The Thoughtful Gardener, by Jinny Blom, is more like a treasure map. It is a window, or in some cases, a panoramic view into the thought processes that should precede all garden design. A timeless, horticultural manifesto! ’
Gunner Peterson
‘A detailed and richly illustrated account of how one of the UK's leading practitioners approaches the art of garden design.’
Gardens Illustrated
‘The Thoughtful Gardener is the most beautiful and stimulating and enlivening gardening book I have ever seen.’
Adam Nicolson
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