What Makes a Garden

INTRODUCTION: What is a Garden?
PART 1: HUMANITY
1. Civilising the Earth
–Culture - Shared Threads of Interest
–Style - Finding Your Voice
2. Pleasure – Paradise Regained
–Freedom - Unfettered Imagination
–Positive Influences
–The Physical Body
–The Troubled Mind  - Problems of Isolation
3: Five Senses
–Scrambled Senses: Synesthesia & Neurodiversity
–Smell - Scent and Seasonality - Perfumed Gardens
–Touch - Touch in Gardens - Skin - Grass - Weather
–Taste - Oral Pleasures - Tasty Gardens - Plants That Changed the World - Foraged Flavours - Seasonal Forage Plants of Britain
–Sound - Natural Music
–Sight - Art: Colour and Stimulation - Paint - Dyers Colours - Dyers Plants - Choosing Colour - Colour Perception
PART 2: ALCHEMY
4. Prima Materia
–Immutable Elements - Drawings and Models - Tools
–Fundamental Elements - Walls - Fences - Iron Railings - Gates and Doors - Steps - Routes
–Surfaces - Stone Paving - Patterned Stone Floors - Cobbles - Gravel - Terrazzo - Brick and Clay Pavers
–Lesser Evils - Tarmacadam - Concrete and Cement - Play Surfaces
–Naturals - Lawn - Bark - Decking
–Drains
–Embellishments - Little Buildings - Art and Decoration - Water - Play - Utilities
5. Anima Mundi
–Soil - In Sickness and in Health - Dung - Soil by Nature  - Weeds and Their Indications - Clay Soils - Loam - Sandy Soils - Silt Soils - Chalky Soils - Peat Soils
–The Six Kingdoms - Animalia - Plantae - Fungi - Protista - Archaea/Archaebacteria - Bacteria/Eubacteria
–Plagues
–Pests
–The Genesis of Urban Gardens
–Guerilla Gardening
–Cutting Gardens
–Plantsmen
–Propagation
–Plants in Pots
–The Meaning of Flowers
–Self-seeders - Caring for Plants
–Fauna
6. Deconstructing Planting
–Four Freshly Made Gardens
–Italy
–England
–Scotland
–City
PART 3: TIME
–Moving Through Space
–Seasons
–Light - Lunar Light - Solar Light - Artificial Light
CODA
–Further Reading
–Image Credits
–Acknowledgements