Author Profile: Brigitte Norland

Growing Gains • Brigitte Norland

Issue 316 • September/October 2019 • Listen Up! > Reviews

Review of The Garden Jungle: Or Gardening to Save the Planet

Mind the Gap • Brigitte Norland

Issue 270 • January/February 2012 • A New Moral Compass > Reviews

Review of How To Grow Winter Vegetables

Gardening - Daisy Trails • Brigitte Norland

Issue 267 • July/August 2011 • Once Upon A Time > Regulars > Gardening

The star of the summer meadow is this humble, over-looked plant once known as the gardener's 'cure-all'

Gardening - Gardening in Rotation • Brigitte Norland

Issue 264 • January/February 2011 • Leadership > Regulars > Gardening

Gardening is a continuum of cultivating, planting and harvesting

Gardening - The Alchemy of the Compost Heap • Brigitte Norland

Issue 262 • September/October 2010 • Embodied Wisdom > Regulars > Gardening

The most important thing in the garden is your compost heap.

Gardening - Sharing the Garden • Brigitte Norland

Issue 261 • July/August 2010 • Sustaining Life > Regulars > Gardening

To finally know ourselves as part of Nature is te true gift of the summer garden.

Gardening - Beans and Peas • Brigitte Norland

Issue 259 • March/April 2010 • Seeds of Change: The Future of Food > Regulars > Gardening

The delicious scent and versatility of sweet peas has given rise to whole societies of passionate aficionados.

Gardening - Lonesome Pines • Brigitte Norland

Issue 257 • November/December 2009 • Resilience & Climate Change > Regulars > Gardening

Native pine trees are a resilient species that can adapt to most circumstances.

Gardening - Apples • Brigitte Norland

Issue 256 • September/October 2009 • Exploring Consciousness > Regulars > Gardening

Inspiring in blossom, nurturing in their yield, they are the very heart of our gardens.

Review - The Patient Gardener • Brigitte Norland

Issue 254 • May/June 2009 • Elegant Simplicity > Web Exclusives > Review

Review of Wait for decisiveness to be informed by spirit of place.

Gardening - The Perfect Garden • Brigitte Norland

Issue 252 • January/February 2009 • Nature Crunch: Redesign, Rethink, Reimagine > Regulars > Gardening

There is rhythm in the tide of growth.

Gardening - Landmatters • Brigitte Norland

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 • Music for Transformation > Regulars > Gardening

Living on the land.

Gardening - A Spring Sowing • Brigitte Norland

Issue 247 • March/April 2008 • Long Live Biodiversity! > Regulars > Gardening

Grandmother's Scrapbook • Brigitte Norland

Issue 247 • March/April 2008 • Long Live Biodiversity! > Reviews

Review of The Biodynamic Year

Time Well Spent • Brigitte Norland

Issue 246 • January/February 2008 • Gandhi's Gift: The Power Of Nonviolence > Reviews

Review of Doing Time in the Garden by James Jiler

Gardening - LIVING LIBRARY • Brigitte Norland

Issue 245 • November/December 2007 • The Moral Economy > Regulars > Gardening

Martin Hughes-Jones and Susan Proud have been working with the elements to create a magical garden on their land in Devon.

Gardening - ON PRUNING • Brigitte Norland

Issue 243 • July/August 2007 • The Point of Return > Regulars > Gardening

A careful look at the art of pruning.

Gardening - HEDGES AND EDGES • Brigitte Norland

Issue 240 • January/February 2007 • There is no wealth but life > Regulars > Gardening

Garden boundaries offer an opportunity to create beautiful, indigenous wildlife havens. Some plants for hedges and edges.

Gardening - IN FULL FLOWER • Brigitte Norland

Issue 236 • May/June 2006 • Animate Earth > Regulars > Gardening

The delights of peonies, poppies, honeysuckle and lilac.

Review - GARDENING VIGNETTES • Brigitte Norland

Issue 235 • March/April 2006 • From Ownership to Relationship > Web Exclusives > Review

Review of Why We Garden by Jim Nollman

Gardening - FIELD FLOWERS • Brigitte Norland

Issue 235 • March/April 2006 • From Ownership to Relationship > Regulars > Gardening

The purpose of weeding is not to eliminate, but to enter into a spirit of co-operation.

Gardening - WINTER WILDS • Brigitte Norland

Issue 233 • November/December 2005 • The Answer is still Peace > Regulars > Gardening

GARDEN GIFTS • Brigitte Norland

Issue 231 • July/August 2005 • The Four Pillars of Sustainability > Feature Articles

Food and warmth, sweetness and light are the sun's gifts in the garden.

ART OF THE GARDEN • Brigitte Norland

Issue 227 • November/December 2004 • Dialogue with Nature > Feature Articles

Two great British passions are celebrated in one outstanding exhibition.

A NATURE PILGRIMAGE • Brigitte Norland

Issue 224 • May/June 2004 • The Heat is On > Reviews

Review of Winifred Nicholson in Scotland

LIFE IN A GRAIN OF SAND • Brigitte Norland

Issue 215 • November/December 2002 • The Power of Nature > Reviews

Review of The World is my Garden

GARDENER'S DELIGHT • Brigitte Norland

Issue 208 • September/October 2001 • Technology: dream or nightmare? > Reviews

Review of Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers

GLORIOUS GARDENS • Brigitte Norland

Issue 201 • July/August 2000 • Only Connect - Soil, Soul, Society > Reviews

Review of The Pursuit of Paradise and Christopher Brickell's Garden Plants

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT • Brigitte Norland

Issue 200 • May/June 2000 • Culture of Compassion > Reviews

Review of Raga Mala

COAST AND COUNTRYSIDE • Brigitte Norland

Issue 196 • September/October 1999 • Myth of Progress > Reviews

Review of Coast, and Countryside

A GENEROUS GARDENER • Brigitte Norland

Issue 193 • March/April 1999 • Deterrence - Nature - Wild > Reviews

Review of City Fields, Country Gardens - Allotment Essays

GARDEN RESTORED • Brigitte Norland

Issue 190 • September/October 1998 • Nature, Science and Society > Feature Articles

The visitors to the restored garden of Heligan feel part of the whole and not processed through the ticket office and round the garden. There is an exchange of intimacy.

CHILDREN OF RUSKIN MILL • Brigitte Norland

Issue 189 • July/August 1998 • Right to a Way of Life > Feature Articles

Problems are not there to be eliminated but to be lived through.

FOOD FOR PLEASURE AND HEALTH • Brigitte Norland

Issue 188 • May/June 1998 • The Gene Debate > Reviews

Review of Gardener Cook, Plants for a Future, and Nature Wars: People v. Pests