The Garden Against Time and prolonging the process of

and prolonging the process of harvesting

the destruction of coral gardens by dredgers in Lyme Bay or the restoration of oysters on America’s east coast

For the whole of human history

discover how to paint individual flowers and foliage

A simply wonderful story

The Garden Against Time and prolonging the process ofA fascinating, deeply felt account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of gardens. In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens. 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