The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
Author: Olivia Laing
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2024-06-25
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0393882012

An Oprah Daily Summer Reading Recommendation • Named one of the most anticipated books of 2024 by the BBC, The Observer, Irish Times, The Guardian, and The Millions. Inspired by the restoration of her own garden, "imaginative and empathetic critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing embarks on an exhilarating investigation of paradise. In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an 18th 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 slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth. But the story of the garden doesn’t always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. It’s also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams. From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated by William Morris, new modes of living can and have been attempted amidst the flower beds, experiments that could prove vital in the coming era of climate change. The result is a humming, glowing tapestry, a beautiful and exacting account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of gardens: not as a place to hide from the world but as a site of encounter and discovery, bee-loud and pollen-laden.

Our House

Our House
Author: Merilyn S. Mohr
Publisher: Camden East, Ont. : Camden House Pub.
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1994
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9780921820925

The Garden

The Garden
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1901
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: