Digging Deeper

The Spirit of Defiant Gardens

  • Balmori, Diana, and Margaret Morton. Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1993
  • Bloch, Ernst. The Principle of Hope. Translated by Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice, and Paul Knight. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986..
  • Jarman, Derek. Derek Jarman’s Garden. Photographs by Howard Sooley. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1996.
  • Solnit, Rebecca. Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. New York: Nation Books, 2004.
  • “Therapeutic Landscapes Network: The Resource for Gardens and Landscapes that Promote Health and Well-Being.” Therapeutic Landscapes Network. <http://www.healinglandscapes.org/blog/>.
  • Gardening Leave. <http://www.gardeningleave.org/>. (Gardening Leave was started by Anna Baker Cresswell in 2007 to improve the mental and physical wellbeing of Serving and ex-Service personnel using Horticultural Therapy, in walled gardens and is now developing Horicultural Therapy projects throughout the UK.)
  • Kimber, Clarissa T. “Gardens and Dwelling: People in Vernacular Gardens.” Geographical Review 94.3 (2004): 263-83.   Gardens and Dwelling: People in Vernacular Gardens.