I LOVE NATURE and botanical GARDENS.

I haven't REALLY GOT a GREEN thumb, but I LOVE GARDENS and their architecture.

Remember that children, marriages, and FLOWER GARDENS REFLECT the kind of CARE they GET.

When you go back to the days when I was STUDYING how to paint, some of the things that excited me most was to go into the Huntington LIBRARY and GARDENS and to see the amazing pictures of the landed gentry.

Despite LOVING ENGLAND and loving English GARDENS, I'm not a chintz person, NEVER was. It's too CUTE.

The most LASTING and PURE gladness comes to me from my GARDENS.

Let me give you an idea of Fifties BRITAIN. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had RETURNED to their GARDENS and allotments HOPING life WOULD revert to how it was before the hostilities.

My WHOLE interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we ENGAGE with the natural world. To go BACK even further, I got interested in gardens because I was interested in NATURE and wilderness and Thoreau and Emerson.