Mediterranean Gardens - Louisa Jones

Mediterranean Gardens

By: Louisa Jones

Hardcover | 1 October 2013 | Edition Number 1

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Mediterranean gardening offers a way of living in harmony with the earth without contrived effects or heavy spending.

Born of long human experience on the land, it is frugal and fruitful, serves many purposes and gives many pleasures, year-round. Today, it adapts easily to our growing ecological awareness, to individual creativity and community sharing.

Above all, it perpetuates a longstanding partnership between human beings and their environment, tested in Mediterranean countries for millennia. Mediterranean cooking grew from peasant roots but has become fashionable today all over the world without loss of local diversity.

More than a mere trend, it has been widely adopted because of its underlying, enduring practices: it is seasonal, local, healthy and flavourful, economical but capable of great refinement. Mediterranean gardening has much the same base and similar benefits.

Like the cuisine, Mediterranean gardening offers an approach that can be adapted to all climates and budgets, for better, sustainable living in harmony with the environment. The author encapsulates the essence of Mediterranean gardens and landscapes in this beautiful book.

Her authoritative writing, evocative photographs and lyrical poetry brilliantly celebrate these timeless gardens and lifestyle. The principles of Mediterranean gardening as described in this book will provide meaning and a sense of purpose for gardeners everywhere.

Industry Reviews
This book is a distillation, from years of experience and deep thought, of Louisa Jones reflections on the traditional gardens of the Mediterranean in all their forms. It is in a sense a manifesto and indeed the title of the original French edition of the book is Manifeste pour les jardins mediterraneens Her book is a manifesto for the sensuality of the Mediterranean garden It is impossible in a short review to give more than a brief whiff of this thoughtful books flavour. I thoroughly recommend it to anyone who loves life and enjoys gardens. - Caroline Harbouri, The Mediterranean Garden journal When Canadian Louisa Jones first started making a garden in Provence in the 1970s she was told that there were no other gardens in the south of France. Since then she has been discovering, and writing about them, as well as those of the wider Mediterranean basin. These are gardens that do not look to northern Europe for inspiration but are firmly rooted in the traditions, climate and culture of the Mediterranean. After decades of study and reflection, Jones now believes that the Mediterranean way of gardening and, in particular, its relationship with the land from which these gardens spring, can model gardening worldwide. In this short book she sets out her thesis in a series of essays. Jones likens Mediterranean gardens to the region's cuisine -seasonal, local, diverse, sustainable, economical but capable of being refined a peasant cuisine that has captured an international imagination. It is this deeply rooted sense of place that should, she says, inform all garden making. The book is filled with snippets of historical and scientific information and Jones calls on poets and artists to illuminate ideas that will appeal to most forward-thinking garden makers. John Hoyland is a plantsman and garden writer.

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