Mary Reynolds Landscape. On a recent spring evening, the landscape designer Mary Reynolds greeted admirers in West Cork, Ireland, looking like one of the nature spirits that inspire her work. With her roots in natural gardening theory, Mary seeks to create spaces that are healing, truthful and magical.
Her book includes garden designs to encourage this, planting and maintaining a forest garden, and proposes specific trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants to use. 'The Garden Awakening – Designs To Nourish Our Land and Ourselves". Drawing inspiration from long-forgotten Irish ways of working with land, Mary Reynolds re-imagines gardens for the times we live in. A good book to read alone and also with a group.
Mary Reynolds is a reformed Irish landscape designer, bestselling author of 'The Garden Awakening' and nature activist.
Mary is a proud patron of Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland (WRI) and strives to do as much as she can to re-educate people how to live in harmony.
She's the founder of the We Are The Ark movement, a patron of Wildlife Rehabilitation Ireland -WRI and she's. Director Vivienne De Courcy made a movie – 'Dare to be Wild' – about Mary's Chelsea Gold Medal winning adventures. Her book includes garden designs to encourage this, planting and maintaining a forest garden, and proposes specific trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants to use. 'The Garden Awakening – Designs To Nourish Our Land and Ourselves".