What Makes A Garden, Jinny Blom

What Makes A Garden

A considered approach to garden design

What Makes a Garden builds upon the work of The Thoughtful Garden, giving a broader idea of how Jinny thinks about garden design. In particular it emphasizes her multi-disciplinary approach, which embraces architecture, conservation and art, coupled with a strong holistic thread. This fascinating and insightful book looks at how a garden should please all five senses; how it is an alchemical mix of the inanimate and the living; and also how it has to accommodate both the effects of time and the influences of culture.

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What Makes A Garden, Jinny Blom
What Makes a Garden is Book of the Year by Jinny Blom

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‘What Makes A Garden is perhaps the most eloquent and horizon-expanding book on garden design to be published since Russell Page’s “Education of a Gardener”.’
Christopher Woodward
‘Jinny Blom is a profoundly sensitive designer who lets the landscape speak to her in the most deeply meaningful and spiritual way. Jinny’s work touches your inner self, moving and pulling you into a romantic wonderland of natural beauty. Her gardens, her writing, and thought processes are uniquely her, evocative of the wild, yet synanthropic and realistic.’
Fergus Garrett
‘The title of Jinny Blom’s last book The Thoughtful Gardener says it all. This very thoughtful gardener creates amongst the most beautiful gardens I have ever seen. Jinny stands tall against a world of convention and mediocrity.’
Veere Grenney
‘With What Makes a Garden, Jinny Blom once again demonstrates that she truly is the most thoughtful of gardeners. The book is full of moments of deep consideration: of the way gardens affect us and we them. This book transcends the boundaries of landscape design to reveal the profound interplay between art, nature, culture, and human ingenuity.’
Ted Sandling
‘By her very nature it seems entirely appropriate that Jinny Blom explores what makes a garden. She’s ancient, Chaucerian, by spirit to modern Jarman. An artist who understands that art and the sublime come from a place of no rules. Wild and free, I look forward to wandering through the meadow of her imagination.’
Tim Walker
‘The winner of this category is a future classic: every page has long-distilled thoughts and wider life experiences which make you stop, think, and look outside. Some of the pages on why we garden are just magnificent. It was this mix of the practical, the philosophical and the inspirational that made this book stand out to the judges in an extremely competitive field.’
Arit Anderson
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