My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.

'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden cannot be made by somebody who has not developed the capacity to know and love growing things.

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.