I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow.

My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds.

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

To boldly grow where no one has groan before.

I've always felt that you can't do much wrong in a garden providing you enjoy it.