"Gardens and dreaming have the same transitory quality that makes them hard to describe from beginning to end. Putting the two together in a garden dream is doubly illusive. My garden dream is as vivid as any dream, in the dreaming of it. But I carry only vague images into the waking hours: stone walls, great lawns, woodland paths, small pools, cascading roses, clematis, and an entanglement of other flowers as they transform through the seasons. When I enter my real garden, I can't recognize much of the dream at all." [...]

From Garden Dreams, edited by Ferris Cook, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York, New York, 1991