Featuring gardens, flowers and plants that appeal to our sense of sight, smell, touch and hearing, this volume aims to enhance the pleasures of both gardening and visiting gardens for the reader. The book offers a fresh approach to home garden design by showing how an appreciation of the sensuous qualities of plants enriches the time we spend outdoors and gardening. Organized by the five senses plus a sixth "intuitive" sense, the text is both inspirational and practical. The author, Jeff Cox, helps the gardener to discover his or her natural creativity and suggests ideas for designing marvellous gardens and selecting special plants. Jerry Pavia's photos capture the sensuous qualities of plants and gardens, and are intended to help the reader acquire a discerning eye for colour, form, and texture and to become aware of fragrances, sound, and even taste. All the photographs were specially commissiones for this book and portray gardens in America, Canada, England, Scotland and France. The book contains descriptives charts of flowers and foliage listed by sensuous qualities, along with practical advice about selecting plants that appeal to our senses and have other use, such as potpourri, tea and natural medicines.
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Here Cox ( Plant Marriages ) considers "both the sensuous and sensual aspects of plants," hoping to "bring . . . unconscious sensory experiences into the bright light of full consciousness." Lest this sound too Freudian, what he really wants to do is to simplify, not to complicate, a gardener's pleasure, returning us to a child-like state of harmony with nature. Reasonably, the book is divided into chapters that address each sense (sight, smell, touch, sound, taste) in turn, before finally taking on "the sixth sense," meaning one that "perceives a reality beyond the material world" of plants. Under "Sound," for instance, Cox discusses wind chimes and piped-in music for garden settings, as well as the music donated by nature. Under "Scent," herbs receive a good deal of attention, and color, of course, looms large in "Sight." And, continually encouraging the development or the reawakening of an "aesthetic sense," the book prods gently with color photos. But, like his previous Plant Marriages , Cox offers more gimmick than genius, and quite a few commonplaces mixed in. "A strong and trusted intuition is a particularly great help in gardening," he notes, and, "sitting in a garden, it is not hard to believe that we and the plants are part of a greater whole." People have been saying this for centuries.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Providing 160 visually delightful color photos from gardens in the United States, Canada, England, and France, photographer Pavia joins garden writer Cox in issuing an invitation to gardeners to sample appealing gardens that stimulate our senses of sight, smell, touch, sound, and taste. Devoting a chapter to each sense, Cox describes ways specific plants appeal to the senses and shows how gardeners can develop a greater awareness of color, form, texture, fragrance, and other sensuous qualities. An appendix includes a listing of annuals, bulbs and corms, vines, perennials, shrubs, and trees, specifying their sensuous appeal. This handsome book will interest readers who are hunting for ideas for new plants in their home landscape.
- Dale Luchsinger, Athens Area Technical Inst., Ga.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Dale Luchsinger, Athens Area Technical Inst., Ga.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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For the first eight years of my life, I was a suburban kid in Manhasset, New York. Then we moved to the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania where I learned to hunt, fish, eat wild foods, and swim in pristine waters of spring-fed creeks. Then I lived in Manhattan. So I'm at home just about anywhere. My experiences in the country, though, were the most important, leading me through newspaper and magazine work to Organic Gardening magazine, where I developed a love of gardening and landscaping. Now I'm a wine writer for many magazines and the restaurant reviewer for Northern California's newspaper of record, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, here in the heart of the Wine Country. I'm also a contributing editor to The Wine News and Horticulture magazines. I've written 18 books on food, wine, and gardening,--many of which are available on Amazon.
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This review is from: Creating a Garden for the Senses (Hardcover)
Jeff Cox enriches our appreciation of gardens by working through our sense of sight, smell, touch, sound, taste and our intuitive sixth sense of what is right or wrong in garden design. It's a well-designed, well-written book full of wonderful photographs with great plant identification. The back of the book contains a detailed table listing hundreds of plants, their descriptions and the zone they grow best in. This book is a wonderful addition to any library be it at home or at the office!
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