Gardens for the Soul is a truly inspiring approach to garden design. Garden designer and plantswoman Pamela Woods' unique approach teaches you how to create a garden that reflects your spiritual beliefs and inner emotions. She invokes the power and beauty of ancient symbols, like Celtic wheels and spirals, with Eastern practices, such as feng shui, to create gardens that are relaxing, meditative and, above all, beautiful.

Beginning with a discussion of what makes a garden spiritual using historical examples and her own modern designs, Pamela then discusses how to analyze and channel the energies in your garden using techniques such as feng shui, dowsing and basic common sense. She also looks at ancient symbols and systems, for example, The Tree of Life, the medicine wheel, mandalas, spirals and labyrinths, and how to incorporate them into your own garden. Pamela then explores how shapes and forms in nature are reflected throughout the universe, in history and in science, and how to draw upon these universal patterns as inspiration for your gardens. Inspirational chapters explain how plants can possess healing powers and symbolic mysticism and explore how to appreciate the foundations of your garden--tending the earth itself, incorporating wildernes and understanding the seasons that nurture your garden.

Simple graphic illustrations, helpful plans and John Glover's evocateive photography combine with spiritual theories and practical garden advice to help you create a space that is full of peace and resonance--an extension of your own soul and somewhere you will feel completely at home.

Pamela Woods is an artist, landscape designer, and passionate plantswoman. For the last 18 years she has run a garden design practice that has come to specialize in designing public and private gardens for clients who have a spiritual focus. Sacred Gardens is the only company in the UK to work exclusively in this way and its work is featured in the Website www.sacredgardens.co.uk. In 1999 Sacred Gardens won a Silver Gilt Medal for The Feng Shui Garden at The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Pamela also lectures and holds training workshops internationally.

John Glover is an internationally renowned photographer, specializing in gardens and landscapes. His photographs have been published worldwide in magazines, books, and calendars, and in 1999 and 2000 he received the Garden Writer's Association of America Award of Excellence.