The Garden Awakening | Mary Reynolds | TEDxWexford

The Garden Awakening is a garden design talk with a difference. Drawing inspiration from long-forgotten Irish ways of working with land, Mary Reynolds re-imagines gardens for the times we live in. She looks at land the way a parent looks at a child. It is a gift and a responsibility. You will learn to ask what the land itself wants to become and how to encourage that intention, the talk also looks at the need for sustainable living especially growing our own food and how to do that within two requirements. With Mary's gentle approach and inspirational talk you can awaken your garden, nurturing the land to become a beautiful, truthful and magical space, with garden designs and sustainable farming that are in harmony with nature and can reverse our environmental trajectory.
Mary Reynolds strives to be a good listener. By listening carefully to her client and the land in question, she undertakes the design of gardens that marry the needs and wishes of the lands guardian with the needs and wishes of the land itself. With her roots in natural gardening theory, Mary seeks to create spaces that are healing, truthful and magical.
She also encourages the clients to form their own relationship with the little piece of earth they are lucky enough to call their own, their gardens.A Chelsea flower show gold medal winner, Mary has designed gardens internationally for more than 17 years, including commissions in Kew Royal botanical gardens in London as well as occasional stints of garden television presenting for RTE and BBC. Mostly she spends her time growing two very magical wild children who are the stars of Mary’s garden.A feature length movie based on Marys true life story will be released in 2016.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

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  • @Wildmarymary
    @Wildmarymary5 жыл бұрын

    Sorry people! I was nervous and got my facts mixed up!. It would BEGIN to reverse climate change after 5 years is what I meant! :-) xxx Mary

  • @Wildmarymary

    @Wildmarymary

    4 жыл бұрын

    ......

  • @danielahutyrova3276

    @danielahutyrova3276

    4 жыл бұрын

    I was shocked that it would be so easy!! Darn it:(

  • @Wildmarymary

    @Wildmarymary

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@danielahutyrova3276 SO sorry!!

  • @zenden6584

    @zenden6584

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mary Reynolds reformed landscape designer Thank you Mary you 💚

  • @Wildmarymary

    @Wildmarymary

    3 жыл бұрын

    .important ommission that word 'Begin'!!

  • @GardendesignTv
    @GardendesignTv Жыл бұрын

    Mary Reynolds: "We have to become guardians of this planet again, not gardeners". AMEN!

  • @cgfg4748
    @cgfg47484 жыл бұрын

    Why does this video have only 53,826 views!? Please share this video with everyone you know! This is essential knowledge. Mary Reynolds has spoken for the people. We need a revolution. We need to wake up and take charge of our planet!!!

  • @johncroke2466
    @johncroke24663 жыл бұрын

    There's a no till gardening/farming movement just beginning, its basis is to nurture the soil. A glimmer of hope for our future........

  • @foxhillgal1
    @foxhillgal1 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Mary Reynolds, thank you!

  • @barbarawerth2692
    @barbarawerth26923 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Mary Reynolds for your work, for your values and for your enormes courage! I love you and your work sooo much. Greetings from Germany Barbara

  • @Wildmarymary

    @Wildmarymary

    3 жыл бұрын

    xx

  • @janewright3805
    @janewright38054 жыл бұрын

    Mary thankyou for your magical and sensitive approach to the land and gardens x even more important in these times xxxx

  • @moonwoven
    @moonwoven4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Mary. I have just watched the film of your story and was so delighted to see you talk about the faeries. I felt them so strongly driving through Connemara when I was visiting Ireland. I tend a garden or wild place in a small nature preserve. It is not manicured. It wants to be a meadow and I am trying to help it do just this. I have always been attracted to the wild. I love your relationship with the land. I love you gave this talk in bare feet. So much of what I feel, you have shared. I hope more can hear you....

  • @e.b.pernett8463
    @e.b.pernett84634 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Mary! My heart resonates with your sincere message...our true role for mother Earth is being care takers. Although many others seem to incarnate for other purposes in some kind of cosmic paradox. But as you eloquently said, they will go away if we direct our attention elsewhere. It seems the more we resist the tyrants, the more they persist...so just ignore their struggle to understand, and not fight it. I have your wonderful book and its the first one I recommend to people who are awakening in their own internal garden...I think our physical and mental terrain has been tilled by the ego and now is the time for the divine feminine to heal.

  • @ramyhuber8392
    @ramyhuber839217 күн бұрын

    How absolutely wonderful, thank you. Very inspired, thoughtful, brilliant.

  • @rollandjoeseph
    @rollandjoeseph4 жыл бұрын

    You have great passion for the land, the soil, the earth..and it shows! Also a great inspiring talk , I can't wait to get back to my land and garden after winter ..thank you Mary!

  • @bernadettecassidy3620

    @bernadettecassidy3620

    3 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant Mary.....thanks for the inspiration!

  • @clarecollins2547
    @clarecollins25476 ай бұрын

    Mary you have made me cry. I get that the plants are all preening for attention. They move when you talk to them I find!

  • @Creative-Soul2612
    @Creative-Soul2612 Жыл бұрын

    Love & respect everything you are sharing ❤

  • @suzannahh4716
    @suzannahh47164 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much... you are an enlightened and beautiful soul and your message needs to be heard and heeded.

  • @omsweetomspiritualpermacul4491
    @omsweetomspiritualpermacul44914 жыл бұрын

    I love your message Mary Reynolds, thank you so much xxx

  • @annmariecross8626
    @annmariecross86265 жыл бұрын

    very moved, thank you.. . . this is wisdom. . . . may this message bloom and spread and thrive! (The more comments and likes and shares, the more visibility KZread will give this video)

  • @marionj9782
    @marionj9782 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Mary; ignore them, then they will disappear. At the moment, they are showing us an excellent wakeup programm......our mother will survive.....the question is: who of us will join in the new time. Very fascinating that today for the first time I found you. Wonderful. Greetings from Germany

  • @ingardensallmistywetwithrain
    @ingardensallmistywetwithrain4 жыл бұрын

    What she has said in 15 minutes, I have been thinking of in bits and pieces, for the last 10 years. We need more people like her. She is amazing. In my home town in Canada, we have a movement called Return the Landscape. Check them out.

  • @Lunalily444
    @Lunalily4446 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Mary for this beautiful and important message. As a mother of four, I will do everything I can to model this to my children.

  • @pearlmilkweed6551
    @pearlmilkweed65513 жыл бұрын

    Forgive them Mother, for they know not what they do We live in an incredible world of wonder and beauty . Thank you for your beautiful message and vision

  • @deborahsim1676
    @deborahsim16765 жыл бұрын

    Let us take up this invitation to be guardians of our Earth!

  • @annmariebowring3897
    @annmariebowring38975 жыл бұрын

    Yes,​ you have said it we are only passing through this world and we have a duty of care, thanks, Mary.

  • @Firework1710
    @Firework17104 жыл бұрын

    Elegance with such an important message. Thank you Mary x

  • @prishoh
    @prishoh8 ай бұрын

    Thank you for the talk. I finally view this talk in 2023 Sept. It is still not too late.

  • @VHS_GIS
    @VHS_GIS3 жыл бұрын

    Thank u for you're sincere passion Mary! such a beautiful soul! peace!

  • @Wildmarymary

    @Wildmarymary

    3 жыл бұрын

    xxx

  • @Tore1972Wisdom
    @Tore1972Wisdom4 жыл бұрын

    SPOT ON.

  • @SavvyOrganicsFarm
    @SavvyOrganicsFarm5 жыл бұрын

    Let's not lose our connection with the Earth. The Earth feeds us and we are it's steward. It is time to renew old methods and listen to the nature that God created for us.

  • @eleanordeeyto650
    @eleanordeeyto6506 жыл бұрын

    Mary, I so appreciate your soft eloquence. You are such a wonderful ambassador to bring us all back to global awareness and hopefully ACTION in saving our planet. But we can always start from home....Thankyou.

  • @Wildmarymary

    @Wildmarymary

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you x

  • @zenden6584
    @zenden65844 жыл бұрын

    Extremely powerful message! Thank you Mary 🙌🏻🙏🏻💚

  • @LearnPermaculture
    @LearnPermaculture Жыл бұрын

    Thank you Mary. Such an important message. Loving your book. :)

  • @irishbouzouki9084
    @irishbouzouki90846 жыл бұрын

    I'm holding back the tears right now and am realizing more and more why I'm being pulled back to the land of my youth.

  • @monicabrandarizsanchez3646
    @monicabrandarizsanchez36466 жыл бұрын

    I adore you! Thank your for such an authentic and inspirational talk.

  • @zoefully
    @zoefully6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Mary Reynolds, for a deep, and essential message.

  • @janicepalmer9395
    @janicepalmer93956 жыл бұрын

    Very inspirational, everyone needs to listen to Mary.

  • @sparklestone5539
    @sparklestone55393 жыл бұрын

    Thank you i really enjoyed your Talk.

  • @mimiseton
    @mimiseton5 жыл бұрын

    I perceive as you do -- the sentience in all things, most of all our Mother Earth. Thank you so much for your work and may you inspire MANY people to become guardians of their land, rather than tyrants trying to thrash her into submission. How I wish we could have a GLOBAL BOYCOTT on industrial-farmed products. Just stop buying them.

  • @MichelleMarieMcGrath
    @MichelleMarieMcGrath6 жыл бұрын

    Such a great talk. Could listen to Mary all day! xxx

  • @mariecronin6047
    @mariecronin60475 жыл бұрын

    Thank you , so true and heartfelt, I am moved to believe we can change it.

  • @lonerhappy
    @lonerhappy6 жыл бұрын

    She is so awesome and a beautiful soul!

  • @SandraAdragna
    @SandraAdragna6 жыл бұрын

    Your talk really resonated with me. I really agree with personal responsibility and being good stewards. Thank you for this beautiful message. I love the “intentions” of the Earth, the land.

  • @kalayne6713
    @kalayne67135 жыл бұрын

    See also, on youtube, Bealtaine Cottage where Colette O'Neill has, over the past 14 years created a woodland using permaculture principles based on working with Mother Earth.

  • @tessabela
    @tessabela4 жыл бұрын

    wow... you are God's instrument in the rebuilding of Eden, Mary Reynolds.

  • @patriciablas7770
    @patriciablas77706 жыл бұрын

    Hello. My name is Trish from the Island of Guam. I just watched "Dare to be wild". Your story touched my soul so deeply! Nature provides healing for me. I feel the connectiion with the plants. I want to visit your gardens. How can I connect with you?

  • @clarecollins2547
    @clarecollins25476 ай бұрын

    I absolutely agree with you Mary. 😍

  • @melissafletcher838
    @melissafletcher8386 жыл бұрын

    Thank youu. You have inspired me so much. I am guiding and guarding an acre of special wild pasture in somerst back to being an abundant forest garden. Your book came out just as i purchased this land and your words are by my side. I hope to invite others to immerse themselves into this land to heal and inspire others. This will spread. People will all wake up surely.

  • @Wildmarymary

    @Wildmarymary

    6 жыл бұрын

    Best of luck Melissa.. keep the faith. x

  • @rainbowpeace13
    @rainbowpeace137 жыл бұрын

    Thank you...profound and simply elegant.

  • @dhanwanteerampersad6715
    @dhanwanteerampersad67156 жыл бұрын

    Inspiring video."Nature itself is the best physician."--Hippocrates.

  • @GowthamV07
    @GowthamV077 жыл бұрын

    Very good explanation of how the ecosystem is now.

  • @aolin666
    @aolin6667 жыл бұрын

    beautiful message from beautiful person

  • @moonsunkang2159
    @moonsunkang21595 жыл бұрын

    책 봤어요. 감사합니다. 또 읽어볼게요. 정원은 우리자신을 위한 선물이다. 또한 정원은 우리의 스승이 될수도 있다. ^^

  • @marygunning5121
    @marygunning51215 жыл бұрын

    Rewilding is the way to go.

  • @deejakes1655
    @deejakes16557 жыл бұрын

    Eloquently and beautifully put...

  • @TheSacredroots
    @TheSacredroots7 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful Mary xx

  • @actric3
    @actric35 жыл бұрын

    She describes exactly how the nymph in me feels about nature :)

  • @eugenethompson2942
    @eugenethompson29425 жыл бұрын

    amen

  • @thomasmertoncontemplativei4322
    @thomasmertoncontemplativei43223 жыл бұрын

    POETIC AND POWERFUL. CAIT DEIGNAN

  • @Creative-Soul2612
    @Creative-Soul2612 Жыл бұрын

    Sadhguru has been talking & educating nations about Save our Soil. If we don't act soon it will be too late when all the good soils have disappeared & we can't grow food. There will be a war for food if we don't step up and act now 😊❤

  • @sunisonyourside4504
    @sunisonyourside45046 жыл бұрын

    Nice talk ,We can start by giving up on plastic water bottles! :)

  • @Wildmarymary

    @Wildmarymary

    5 жыл бұрын

    You are so right. x

  • @brianquinn5060

    @brianquinn5060

    3 жыл бұрын

    and plastic straws

  • @jesussavedme3in1
    @jesussavedme3in1 Жыл бұрын

    Here here Mary!!! Let's be guardians, not gardeners! Well...

  • @dancingcedar
    @dancingcedar7 жыл бұрын

    Yes :)

  • @et4235
    @et42353 жыл бұрын

    THE REYNOLDS TED TALK ¿Have you watched it?

  • @codynewsome3999
    @codynewsome39994 жыл бұрын

    Nothing will change

  • @elisitasotocaceres5618
    @elisitasotocaceres5618 Жыл бұрын

    Yo nuevamente, hay un reportaje sobre mi vida como artista, "Violetas músicas del Bío Bio Capitulo 2

  • @discordwoodpodcast2148
    @discordwoodpodcast21484 жыл бұрын

    The birds don't starve to death.. They always eat. And so would we.

  • @omsweetomspiritualpermacul4491
    @omsweetomspiritualpermacul44914 жыл бұрын

    What do you think of Permaculture, Mary?

  • @gardenofpraise567
    @gardenofpraise5672 жыл бұрын

    “You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. "You ask me to dig for stones! Shall I dig under her skin for bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again. "You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men, but how dare I cut my mother's hair? "I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother." - Wovoka

  • @Wildmarymary
    @Wildmarymary4 жыл бұрын

    Sorry people! I was nervous and got my facts mixed up!. It would BEGIN to reverse climate change after 5 years is what I meant! :-) xxx Mary

  • @fc4660

    @fc4660

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mary Reynolds reformed landscape designer fantastic presentation, Mary. Natural and heartfelt 💕

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