Since the eighteenth century, when Pope and Addison meditated deeply onardens, there has been very little critical discussion of gardens andardening. This stimulating, entertaining and original collection of essaysims to redress that balance, renewing the connection between gardening andhe wider intellectual and cultural world. Essays include : "The Garden Andhe Division Of Labour" by Martin Hoyles; "Horticultural Intervention Art" byony Heywood; "Digging For Anarchy" by Tom Hodgkinson; "The Spirit Of Theeometrician" by Fernando Caruncho; "As The Garden, So The Earth - Theolitics Of The Natural Garden" by Noel Kingsbury; "Landscape Design And Life:onflict Or Complicity?" by Gilles Clement; "The Explosion Of Gardenisiting In France" by Louisa Jones; "Garden, Nature, Art" by David Cooper; "yc Wtc 9:11: The Healing Gardens Of Paradise Lost" by Lorna Mcneur; "Theower Is In Harmony" by Nori And Sandra Pope; "Unnatural History: Women,ardening And Femininity" by Rozsika Parker; "Zen And The Art Of Teaardening" by Charles Chesshire; "Where Have All The Critics Gone?" by Anne