AR February 2021: Garden

The garden beckons us in, delighting with petals and leaves everchanging with the seasons. Both a site of escape and a microcosm of the whole universe, its edges are rigidly drawn lines – the fence of an allotment, the circumference of the earth – but inside, it is a field rich with matter. In this issue, we visit gardens in Mali, India, Palestine, Japan, South Africa and the UAE, looking to the processes by which they have been domesticated and designed