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

[@cgfg4748]

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!!!

[@foxhillgal1]

Thank you Mary Reynolds, thank you!

[@ramyhuber8392]

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

[@GardendesignTv]

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

[@johncroke2466]

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

[@Creative-Soul2612]

Love & respect everything you are sharing ❤

[@Wildmarymary]

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]

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[@danielahutyrova3276]

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

[@Wildmarymary]

@@danielahutyrova3276 SO sorry!!

[@zenden6584]

Mary Reynolds reformed landscape designer Thank you Mary you 💚

[@Wildmarymary]

.important ommission that word 'Begin'!!

[@moonwoven]

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....

[@Lunalily444]

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.

[@janewright3805]

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

[@suzannahh4716]

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

[@annmariecross8626]

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 KZbin will give this video)

[@e.b.pernett8463]

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.

[@annmariebowring3897]

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

[@prishoh]

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

[@omsweetomspiritualpermacul4491]

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

[@marionj9782]

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

[@deborahsim1676]

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

[@barbarawerth2692]

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]

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[@clarecollins2547]

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!

[@rollandjoeseph]

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]

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

[@zoefully]

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

[@Firework1710]

Elegance with such an important message. Thank you Mary x

[@eleanordeeyto650]

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]

Thank you x

[@janicepalmer9395]

Very inspirational, everyone needs to listen to Mary.

[@monicabrandarizsanchez3646]

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

[@pearlmilkweed6551]

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

[@zenden6584]

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

[@ingardensallmistywetwithrain]

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.

[@irishbouzouki9084]

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.

[@lonerhappy]

She is so awesome and a beautiful soul!

[@MichelleMarieMcGrath]

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

[@VHS_GIS]

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

[@Wildmarymary]

xxx

[@LearnPermaculture]

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

[@mariecronin6047]

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

[@SandraAdragna]

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.

[@sparklestone5539]

Thank you i really enjoyed your Talk.

[@rainbowpeace13]

Thank you...profound and simply elegant.

[@melissafletcher838]

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]

Best of luck Melissa.. keep the faith. x

[@SavvyOrganicsFarm]

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.

[@Tore1972Wisdom]

SPOT ON.

[@GowthamV07]

Very good explanation of how the ecosystem is now.

[@clarecollins2547]

I absolutely agree with you Mary. 😍

[@mimiseton]

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.

[@aolin666]

beautiful message from beautiful person

[@dhanwanteerampersad6715]

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

[@tessabela]

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

[@patriciablas7770]

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?

[@deejakes1655]

Eloquently and beautifully put...

[@kalayne6713]

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.

[@eugenethompson2942]

amen

[@marygunning5121]

Rewilding is the way to go.

[@TheSacredroots]

Wonderful Mary xx

[@moonsunkang2159]

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

[@Creative-Soul2612]

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 😊❤

[@actric3]

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

[@thomasmertoncontemplativei4322]

POETIC AND POWERFUL. CAIT DEIGNAN

[@dancingcedar]

Yes :)

[@sunisonyourside4504]

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

[@Wildmarymary]

You are so right. x

[@brianquinn5060]

and plastic straws

[@jesussavedme3in1]

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

[@codynewsome3999]

Nothing will change

[@discordwoodpodcast2148]

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

[@elisitasotocaceres5618]

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

[@et4235]

THE REYNOLDS TED TALK ¿Have you watched it?

[@omsweetomspiritualpermacul4491]

What do you think of Permaculture, Mary?

[@gardenofpraise567]

“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]

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]

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