Investigation into the origins of the modern garden in 18th century England, a story that involves an Englishman, a Swede and an American. Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008. 'Wondrous... I have learned so much from her book' Jon Sno One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies.
