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    Thomas Rutter is a garden, nature and environment writer based in the UK. Trained as a gardener at the Garden Museum, he has worked at private and public gardens across the UK and Italy. His first book, The Tree Atlas, was published by Lonely Planet in 2024. The Garden Through Time will be published by Hachette in May 2026, and his third book, The Ethical Gardener, will be published by Harper Collins in August 2026.

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