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'I have had almost every rose that you can grow,' she says, 'and some died, but at least I have made their acquaintance.'

Gardeners always delight in doing something that another gardener says can't be done.

What is life, and what is gardening, if one is not always ready to make new friends and make new experiments?

It's Human Nature, or at least a gardener's nature (which is not quite the same thing), to want to live at least one and preferably two climatic zones warmer than where he gardens