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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.
Contents
Introduction
1 Mazes and
Labyrinths
2 Gardens
and Time
3 The Garden
as Theatre
4 Interlude:
Ilnacullin, County Cork, Ireland
5 The Green
Chapel
6 Interlude:
St Mary's Churchyard, Mundon, Essex
7 The Green
Study
8 Interlude:
Green Thoughts
9 Garden
Follies
10
Interlude: Some Favourite Follies
11 The
Garden of England
12 Gardens
and Painting
13
Interlude: Essex and Suffolk, Giverny and Arles
14 Gardens
and Music
15 Walls,
Hedges and Fencing with Ourselves
16
Interlude: Two Gardens Enclosed
17 The
Garden Party
18 Peter and
Pan
References
Acknowledgements
Photo
Acknowledgements
Index
