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Garden Wonderland

Create Life-Changing Outdoor Spaces for Beauty, Harvest, Meaning, and Joy

by Leslie Bennett
Julie Chai
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A visual feast of garden design inspiration that embraces diversity and teaches you how to create a lush, colorful, edible, and meaningful garden wonderland of your own.
“Through story and imagery, Garden Wonderland reminds us over and over that plants should be part of everyday for everyone: as food, experience, memory, and creativity.”—Jennifer Jewell, creator and host of the Cultivating Place public radio program and podcast, and author of What We Sow
Award-winning garden designer Leslie Bennett creates gardens filled with stunning layers of color and texture. But even more than that, they “feed the eye and nourish the soul” (Elle Decor).
Featuring practical how-to information alongside examples from nineteen gardens, Bennett shows how to incorporate personal and edible elements into the landscape to honor a variety of cultures, while including families of all shapes and sizes, to create space that nurtures self, community, and more. For example, the team designed a garden for the cofounder of the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation to showcase art from emerging Black artists, while for a vegan chef's garden, they incorporated unusual vegetables that can't be found in grocery stores. A garden for a daughter of diplomats reflects the many places she's lived around the world; for a family that wants to beautify their neighborhood, they designed a vibrant community-oriented front yard.
With chapters on floral, edible, gathering, healing, and cultural wonderlands, Bennett provides advice for tailoring a garden to your own needs, whether it's a place to host elegant garden parties, for children to play, to grow your own food and creativity, or a sanctuary to rest and relax. In Garden Wonderland, Bennett helps you unlock the potential of your garden to become a space of inspiring natural beauty, abundance, connection, and belonging.

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    April 2, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781984861399

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      • ISBN: 9781984861399
      • File size: 196578 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      Starred review from July 1, 2024

      Bennett is the founder of Black Sanctuary Gardens, coauthor of The Beautiful Edible Garden, and winner of the American Horticultural Society's Landscape Design Award. Chai is the editor of three of the Floret books, including the award-winning Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden. They partner here to offer a significant guide to garden design. Their book stresses something many gardeners likely feel but will appreciate having articulated: that gardens are wonderlands, places where garden makers can experience awe and find a sense of fullness, identity, and belonging. The book asks readers to think deeply about their garden spaces and stresses inspiration, practicality, and design. Featuring garden examples owned by an inclusive range of people, chapters highlight different choices gardeners might make, such as edible, floral, healing, gathering, or cultural garden spaces, with tips and examples to help realize each. VERDICT What makes this book consequential is its sensibility and purpose. There are a number of outstanding books on building gardens, but the intentionality of this stands out. It is a title librarians should consider a part of a core collection.--Neal Wyatt

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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