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In the Garden

How are the immaculate gardens of Versailles, the raw beauty of a forest, a typical suburban lawn, and a sunflower maze related? “I have been engaged with gardening for almost as long as I have been interested in photography,” says Sarah McNear, coauthor, with Jamie Allen, of . “But this is decidedly explores the garden as a cultivated landscape of ideas. “We have taken some liberties that hopefully may surprise, provoke, or charm the viewer,” McNear says.

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