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a beloved staple of the British spring, a vibrant symbol of renewal and resilience that returned year after year, regardless of who sat upon the throne. The Glorious Revolution had successfully rewritten the laws of the land, establishing a constitutional framework that would guide the nation into the modern era. But while the politicians in Parliament were busy building a new empire, William of Orange had quietly planted the seeds of a very different, far more peaceful empire: a nation of passionate, obsessive, and thoroughly eccentric gardeners. And so, as the seventeenth century drew to a close, the British people looked forward to a new era. They had survived civil war, plague, fire, and revolution. They had learned to look upon their rulers with a healthy, deeply ingrained skepticism, and they had discovered that while kings and political systems may come and go, there is a quiet, enduring comfort to be found in the simple, orderly beauty of a well-tended garden. As the country moved into the Georgian era, this love for the unusual, the beautiful, and the thoroughly eccentric would continue to grow, taking on increasingly bizarre and wonderful forms. For the British, the journey through the strange and forgotten corners of their history was only just beginning, and their gardens, much like their crown, would continue to be a place where the magnificent and the absurd walked hand in hand, neatly bordered by a well-clipped hedge.