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The planthunter : truth, beauty, chaos and plants / Georgina Reid with photography by Daniel Shipp.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2018Edition: North American editionDescription: 255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781604699647
  • 1604699647
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Contents:
Ideas of beauty. The gangsta gardener : Ron Finley -- A post-industrial walled garden: Bill Henson -- Healing gardens: Topher Delaney -- Rental decadence: David Whitworth -- A grand garden legacy: Beverley McConnell -- Heirloom seed hero: Clive Blazey -- Order and chaos. Dahlias, dirty nails and glorious disorder: Lucy Culliton -- Punk landscape architecture in LA: David Godshall -- A landscape of the soul: Trisha Dixon -- Welcome to Cevanlandia: Cevan Forristt -- When more is more indoors: Gaylene Krajewski -- The plant maestro: Simon Rickard -- Home truths. Changing the world, one farm at a time: Thomas Woltz -- From lawyer to gardener: Leslie Bennett -- The insect lodge: Michael Shepherd -- Witches and weeds: Marysia Miernowska -- Art advocating for nature: Janet Laurence -- The permaculture revolution: David Holmgren -- Life with plants. Bromeliads vs. camellias: Sue and Peter Miles -- Lessons from the world's oldest living culture: Fran Bodkin -- The anatomy of gardens: Michael McCoy -- Confessions of a plant junkie: Bruce Dunstan -- A Californian cutting garden: Max Gill -- The garden as family: Clare James.
Summary: From street gardens in LA to grand country estates in Auckland; tiny rental gardens in Sydney to plant packed suburban Brisbane backyards, this book is a visceral and immersive exploration of the exceptional and ordinary ways people around the world find truth, beauty, purpose and connection through the act of gardening. The book is a culmination of the five years the author and photographer have been pondering questions of plants, people and connection on The Planthunter online magazine. It's a reflection of our complimentary creative vision, shared aesthetic sensibility, and commitment to truthful storytelling. adapted from publisher's website.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An Avant Garde(ning) Book



From street gardens in Los Angeles to grand country estates in Australia, The Planthunter is a visceral and immersive exploration of the exceptional and ordinary ways people around the world find purpose and connection through the act of gardening. All the featured gardeners are committed to the cultivation of the earth and the human spirit. They're landscape architects, artists, garden designers, plant collectors, wanderers, big thinkers, florists, and writers. The Planthunter is for the plant curious, the plant killer, the plant lover, and everyone in between. Jam-packed with soulful stories and hundreds of eye-opening photographs, this must-read will inspire contemplation, curiosity, care, and action.

First published in Australia in 2018 by Thames & Hudson Australia.

Ideas of beauty. The gangsta gardener : Ron Finley -- A post-industrial walled garden: Bill Henson -- Healing gardens: Topher Delaney -- Rental decadence: David Whitworth -- A grand garden legacy: Beverley McConnell -- Heirloom seed hero: Clive Blazey -- Order and chaos. Dahlias, dirty nails and glorious disorder: Lucy Culliton -- Punk landscape architecture in LA: David Godshall -- A landscape of the soul: Trisha Dixon -- Welcome to Cevanlandia: Cevan Forristt -- When more is more indoors: Gaylene Krajewski -- The plant maestro: Simon Rickard -- Home truths. Changing the world, one farm at a time: Thomas Woltz -- From lawyer to gardener: Leslie Bennett -- The insect lodge: Michael Shepherd -- Witches and weeds: Marysia Miernowska -- Art advocating for nature: Janet Laurence -- The permaculture revolution: David Holmgren -- Life with plants. Bromeliads vs. camellias: Sue and Peter Miles -- Lessons from the world's oldest living culture: Fran Bodkin -- The anatomy of gardens: Michael McCoy -- Confessions of a plant junkie: Bruce Dunstan -- A Californian cutting garden: Max Gill -- The garden as family: Clare James.

From street gardens in LA to grand country estates in Auckland; tiny rental gardens in Sydney to plant packed suburban Brisbane backyards, this book is a visceral and immersive exploration of the exceptional and ordinary ways people around the world find truth, beauty, purpose and connection through the act of gardening. The book is a culmination of the five years the author and photographer have been pondering questions of plants, people and connection on The Planthunter online magazine. It's a reflection of our complimentary creative vision, shared aesthetic sensibility, and commitment to truthful storytelling. adapted from publisher's website.

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