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.