Summary
For 500 years the humble garden has been our most versatile living space, as a new book illustrates
What do you do in your garden when you're not gardening? Relax with a cup of tea? Draw up a list of future gardening jobs? Watch the birds at the feeder? While these are all perfectly enjoyable activities, they don't scratch the surface of what Brits get up to in their gardens.See the full content of this document
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Earthy Paradise
Over the centuries, gardens have been the private kingdoms of their owners, a place for imaginations to run riot. Take the writer William Blake, who sat naked in his summer house with his wife, reciting passages from Milton's Paradise Lost. Or what about JM Barrie, who created an ima...
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