Book description
In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and…
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1 author picked The Garden Against Time as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is an account of the author's creation of a new garden interspersed with some very pertinent comments about the social and historical aspects of land and gardens which opened my eyes to some elements which I had never connected with the image of the garden as an earthly paradise.
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