Stuart Cary Welch to Niall Hobhouse
Congratulations upon your fascinating challenge to the world of gardening, a challenge sorely needed.
Most gardens, it seems, are designed in late Victorian mode, or worse. Their planning is mindlessly uncreative, oblivious to the changes - for better or worse - in all other artistic modes.
Of course, your letter inspires a good many early-AM-follies, such as a greenpeace Jackson Pollockian hotchpotch, planted entirely with strains of maryjewwanna, or - a less lucrative one - composed only of weeds.