A garden is to be enjoyed, and should satisfy the mind and not only the eye of the beholder. Sounds such as the rustle of bamboo and the dripping of ….

The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrat….

The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best space available and are so arra….

Gardens are the result of a collaboration between art and nature..

The eighteenth-century view of the garden was that it should lead the observer to the enjoyment of the aesthetic sentiments of regularity and order, ….

Even the most irresistible flowering plant, one that I call a 'key' performer, is part of a whole cast; it has to be considered as a component in an ….

Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent..