Mary spoke at TEDxWexford about our personal responsibility to step into our roles as guardians of our earth.
Interview with The Telegraph
Mary chats with the Telegraph about inspiring the upcoming film Dare to Be Wild, out in UK and Ireland September 23.
RTÉ Radio 1 with Marian Finucane
Thank you to Marian Finucane & RTÉ Radio 1 for having Mary & filmmaker Vivienne DeCourcy on to chat about Dare To Be Wild, due out in Irish & UK cinemas on Sept. 23. You can listen in here!
The Japan Times
During a recent visit to Japan to talk about the film Dare To Be Wild, Mary had a chat with The Japan Times. Click through to read the interview.
Irish Times – Róisín Meets… Podcast
Mary had a wonderful visit & chat with Róisín Ingle at the Irish Times. Listen here.
Smithsonian Magazine
Thank you to Smithsonian Magazine for this piece in their June edition by the lovely Jennie Rothenberg Gritz. Photo by Dara Craul.
Publisher’s Weekly – USA
Thank you to Publisher’s Weekly for this review ahead of The Garden Awakening‘s release in the US in September.
Reynolds, a longtime garden designer, awoke one day to the realization that she could not go on as she had, creating “dead zones” by constraining nature to her will. This treatise-cum-storybook explores her spiritual awakening and reconnection of gardens with nature. She designed her book as a guide to give gardeners “a gentle nudge in the right direction”: that is, back to nature, toward truth. Headnotes in both English and Gaelic emphasize Reynolds’s connection to her native Ireland, which she depicts as a land of sacred places, geometry, symbols, curses, and magic. Her directions take a holistic approach, going beyond practical advice to spiritual guidance; she claims that gardening can show the gardener what needs working on in life itself. Reynolds offers alternative methods of land management beyond chemical therapy. She alternates stories of her family and culture with organized layouts, how-tos, and recipes (for example: natural fungi-, herbi- and insecticides). She encourages adding fauna to flora along with imagination, dreams, charms, and memory. Ruth Evans’s illustrations add resonance. Color illus. (Sept.)
Irish Examiner Review
Thanks to the Irish Examiner for this lovely review of The Garden Awakening!
In addition to some book launch events around Ireland, Mary recently had a chat with BBC Radio Ulster’s Gardener’s Corner. You can listen in here.