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Books > Gardening > Gardening: plants > Fruit & vegetables
As readers of The Luberon Garden will know, Alex Dingwall-Main has
come across some very odd garden desires in his time. But none so
odd as the Frenchman who asked Alex to find him the oldest olive
tree in existence and fetch it to the South of France to take pride
of place in his exquisite garden. This charming, witty and
evocative piece of horticultural travel writing takes us from the
olive groves of Provence, to the hillsides of Greece, from farms in
Spain, to a back yard in Italy. Along the way our intrepid garden
designer meets a tree that is 3,000 years old; a farmer who won't
sell his tree unless he can sell the 2,000 acre farm that surrounds
it; an olive tree that saved a marriage and a village that believes
a drop of rain touched by the leaves of the ancient 'Angel Olive'
will cure anything. A wonderfully lyrical book with an
extraordinary mission.
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