{"id":144253,"date":"2024-05-02T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T06:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-garden-against-time-by-olivia-laing-review-earthly-paradise\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T13:48:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T06:48:53","slug":"the-garden-against-time-by-olivia-laing-review-earthly-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-garden-against-time-by-olivia-laing-review-earthly-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing review \u2013 earthly paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA vivid account of bringing a garden back to life underlines the importance of outdoor space for allJust as the first lockdown was easing, which is to say in summer 2020, Olivia Laing moved into a Georgian house in Suffolk that came with the tangled remnants of a once-glorious walled garden.\u00a0She had always been a plant person,\u00a0having spent her 20s training to be a herbalist,\u00a0but a lifetime of insecure accommodation had meant making do with borrowed plots and communal corners.\u00a0Now, in addition to getting a garden to call her\u00a0own, Laing had also acquired something equally wondrous: a husband. After two decades of being single,\u00a0she had recently married the poet Ian Patterson, a man of her parents\u2019 generation.The garden, then, was going to have to contain an awful lot of hopes and anxieties, not to mention a great deal of radical clearing and imaginative making. This sky-high expectation was not just because it was Laing\u2019s first garden, nor even because it was where she was going to put down permanent roots, but because it had been created by a famous plant man. In 1961 Mark Rumary, of the esteemed Suffolk nursery Notcutts, had bought the house and set about turning the garden into the kind of Arts and Crafts masterpiece for which he was internationally known. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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