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Gamera is a water tortoise, the bluntest among those living in Agostino Muratori’s succulent garden in Anzio. She looks upon the plants as a brutal deity, as greedy and fighting as her manga-derived name. But this is a book about plants, not animals: palms, agaves, dracaenas, all tended to with passion, all desired, hoped for and greeted.

It is the story of a garden and, of course, of men: Muratori, painter and bonsai artist, tells it through the people and plants who influenced it and helped him in his mission.