Gardens are for people. The purpose of making a garden is to create an extraordinary place for people. Like any art, we can evoke emotions and promote thought within our gardens. At its best, a garden is a sculpture through which our friends may stroll, a sculpture populated by miracles and charm, wonder and beauty.

Like a song, the possibilities of a garden are without limits. Also, like music, there should be purpose and structure, as well as mood and movement to a garden. A collection of plants is not necessarily a garden. Perhaps there should be another term for the various groups of plants humans put together, such as vegetable patch, flower bed, landscape, mailboxscape…

The perfect garden draws us in and makes us feel apart from the vulgar world. The perfect garden causes us to pause and see true beauty, to draw us close to our creator and thereby give us peace.

Our first home was in a garden, we have sought that presence ever since.