Olivia Laing digs into horticulture and gardening to unearth a philosophy of ethics and growth
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise review: Gardens excavated as agents of wider world changeOlivia Laing: As the years roll on, she ensures the steady work of planting, weeding and caring for a garden is never entirely divorced from the outside world, however odd the juxtaposition might seem.
Laing takes her cue from Sebald – who must have walked past her gardened paradise house on his famous walk through Suffolk in 1992 – to reflect on the transformation of the local landscape. The property magnate John Hunt turned the grounds of his large country pile, Heveningham Hall, into a faux 18th-century landscape using rediscovered plans by Capability Brown.
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