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.
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.
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Garden Wonderland: Create Life-Changing Outdoor Spaces for Beauty, Harvest, Meaning, and Joy by Leslie Bennett, Julie Chai
Garden Wonderland: Create Life-Changing Outdoor Spaces for Beauty, Harvest, Meaning, and Joy by Leslie Bennett, Julie Chai
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Garden Wonderland: Create Life-Changing Outdoor Spaces for Beauty, Harvest, Meaning, and Joy by Leslie Bennett, Julie Chai
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
US SRP: $29.99 US
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: April 02, 2024
Physical Info: 1.02" H x 10.16" L x 8.35" W (2.6 lbs) 272 pages
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.
"I've been an avid fan of Leslie Bennett for years. What first hooked me was her keen love of plants, but over the years my appreciation deepened as I realized that her gardens really celebrate relationships and how we as gardeners interact not only with nature, but also with our neighbors, our local communities, and society at large." --Stephen Orr, editor-in-chief of Better Homes & Gardens
"Pine House Edible Gardens projects always bring me joy. Founder Leslie Bennett understands the power of gardens to connect and feed us. I am grateful that this book allows her to share her wisdom with all of us on how to envision a fruitful, stunning, and personal landscape, and give us practical advice on how to turn that vision into reality." --Melissa Ozawa, former features and garden editor of Martha Stewart Living, and writer at Gardenista
Leslie Bennett is the owner of Pine House Edible Gardens and coauthor of The Beautiful Edible Garden. She is a winner of the American Horticultural Society's Landscape Design Award and founder of Black Sanctuary Gardens. Her work has been featured in Better Homes & Gardens, Martha Stewart Living, Elle Décor, Architectural Digest, Sunset, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Gardenista and more. Leslie holds degrees from Harvard University, Columbia Law School, and the University College London in the fields of environmental justice, land use law, and cultural property and preservation. She lives and gardens in Oakland, California with her two children.
Julie Chai has spent her career covering gardening and landscapes, and is the editor of Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers, Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden, and Floret Farm's Discovering Dahlias. Her work has been featured by media including Martha Stewart Living, Better Homes & Gardens, the San Francisco Chronicle, Gardenista, HGTV, and Sunset Magazine, where she was the senior garden editor. She lives and gardens in Los Altos, California, with her husband and son.