All creations exist in a web of influences.
In creating these Web pages I have amassed a great debt to several people, many of whom I have never met personally. A Guide to the Gardens and for the research they have conducted over the years that supported many of these other texts. Nor can I forget to thank Frank Thomson, the Head Gardener at Stowe, who offered me the chance to work and live in the garden during the summer of 1993. And from my undergraduate days, I would like to thank Lionel Basney, for introducing me to Dryden and Pope, and I would like to thank Jack Leax, who taught me to be sensitive to details, both in choosing my words and in laying out a page of text.