Since the 18th century, when Pope and Addison meditated deeply on gardens, there has been very little critical discussion of gardens and gardening. This stimulating, entertaining and original collection of essays aims to redress that balance, renewing the connection between gardening and the wider intellectual and cultural world. Essays include : The Garden And The Division Of Labour by Martin Hoyles Horticultural Intervention Art by Tony Heywood Digging For Anarchy by Tom Hodgkinson The Spirit Of The Geometrician by Fernando Caruncho As The Garden, So The Earth - The Politics Of The Natural Garden by Noel Kingsbury Landscape Design And Life: Conflict Or Complicity? by Gilles Clement The Explosion Of Garden Visiting In France by Louisa Jones Garden, Nature, Art by David Cooper Nyc Wtc 9:11: The Healing Gardens Of Paradise Lost by Lorna Mcneur The Power Is In Harmony by Nori And Sandra Pope Unnatural History: Women, Gardening And Femininity by Rozsika Parker Zen And The Art Of Tea Gardening by Charles Chesshire Where Have All The Critics Gone? by Anne Wareham The Garden As Art by George Carter Gardens Of Ethnicity by Clare Rishbeth Psychotopia by Tim Richardson.