Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise but to Texas

but to Texas

And not to mention incredibly attractive

Two simple words--Let Them--will set you free

Ann Patchett

It masquerades as health

Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise but to TexasIn 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 imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by