Green Fuse

Essays in Making Sense of Gardens

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Why do interiors of houses mimic nature – the wallpapers and curtains, flowers in vases, a vaporizer in the bathroom? Why do we so often connect our childhoods with gardens? Why has the myth of a lost Eden been so ubiquitous and so formative?The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens explores our deep-rooted impulses to create gardens, examining them through the lenses of history, religion, nostalgia and myth. It connects gardens with the other arts – painting, music, literature and theatre – and contemplates their intellectual and philosophical significance. Blending lyrical reflections with research, it offers an unusually wide-ranging and thoughtful perspective on gardens and why we make them. It will be ideal for all readers interested in gardening and its cultural implications.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-05-12
Mått230 x 30 x 160 mm
Vikt655 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagReaktion Books
ISBN9781836390282

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Introduction1 Mazes andLabyrinths2 Gardensand Time3 The Gardenas Theatre4 Interlude:Ilnacullin, County Cork, Ireland 5 The GreenChapel6 Interlude:St Mary’s Churchyard, Mundon, Essex7 The GreenStudy8 Interlude:Green Thoughts9 GardenFollies10Interlude: Some Favourite Follies11 TheGarden of England12 Gardensand Painting13Interlude: Essex and Suffolk, Giverny and Arles14 Gardensand Music15 Walls,Hedges and Fencing with Ourselves16Interlude: Two Gardens Enclosed17 TheGarden Party18 Peter andPanReferencesAcknowledgementsPhotoAcknowledgementsIndex

In The Green Fuse, Peter Dale poses the question of what gardens mean to us, then answers that question in brilliant and engaging ways. Organized around themes such as mazes and labyrinths, garden follies and music in the garden, with a series of remarkable interludes that transport the reader to gardens the author has visited and loved, this book offers a wealth of insight from an experienced gardener and gifted student of the literature of gardens from ancient times to the present day. Richly illustrated from an array of sources, including the author’s own photo archive, this book will delight both practical gardeners and readers curious about the history, culture and aesthetics of the garden.