The Art of the Garden
How Britain became a nation of budding gardeners.
Gardens have long been viewed as places of contemplation, where nature's creative force and human inventiveness combine to create verdant, quasi-paradisical spaces. Indeed, the very idea of paradise as a garden is common to all three Abrahamic faiths. Etymologically, the origin of paradise can be found in old Persian as paradaida, meaning walled around or enclosed, later transliterated into Greek as paradeiso, and subsequently into Latin as paradisus.
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