The Enchanted Garden

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Summary: Enchanting...No Doubt About It
Review: This beautifully crafted book has silky pages and a beautiful dustjacket. It is lavishly illustrated with about 50% Pre-Raphaelite paintings and the other 50% botanical paintings by Benjamin Perkins. The Pre-Raphaelite works are exquisite choices, really enhance the text and make it seem like a delicious indulgence in pleasure. The botanical works are detailed and skillfully rendered and are also wonderful choices that enrich the text. The borders of the pages are decorated as well. The text includes chapters on fairies and angels in the garden, tree spirits and fairy trees, flowers and the feminine spirit, and calling a unicorn into the garden. It is atmospheric and lyrical and sprinkled with whimsy and at the same time it is serious and contemplative. There is much lore and folk wisdom here. It encourages a multi-dimensional relationship with gardens and is filled with healing, magic and beauty as all gardens are. I highly recommend it.

Rating:
Summary: Enchanting...No Doubt About It
Review: This beautifully crafted book has silky pages and a beautiful dustjacket. It is lavishly illustrated with about 50% Pre-Raphaelite paintings and the other 50% botanical paintings by Benjamin Perkins. The Pre-Raphaelite works are exquisite choices, really enhance the text and make it seem like a delicious indulgence in pleasure. The botanical works are detailed and skillfully rendered and are also wonderful choices that enrich the text. The borders of the pages are decorated as well. The text includes chapters on fairies and angels in the garden, tree spirits and fairy trees, flowers and the feminine spirit, and calling a unicorn into the garden. It is atmospheric and lyrical and sprinkled with whimsy and at the same time it is serious and contemplative. There is much lore and folk wisdom here. It encourages a multi-dimensional relationship with gardens and is filled with healing, magic and beauty as all gardens are. I highly recommend it.

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Summary: Elegant and Enchanting
Review: This book is pure enchantment. The color plates of the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites are reason enough to have this book. Discussions of angels and angel meditiation, fairy spells and fairy trees as well as flower healing just begin to touch on the wonders included in this book. How can this book be out of print! It is one of my favorites.I haven't found this information in other book. Its like a beloved fairy tale book of childhood to take out on rainy days or even on sunny ones to sit with under a shade tree and call up the magical powers of nature. Its gorgeous and not be missed.

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Summary: A beautiful little book...
Review: This is a beautifully produced book with gorgeous paintings pictured amidst uplifting prose about the magic and healing of gardening.

Great gift for the gardener who is in to angels, etc. I bought it for my mother.