She makes a pot of coffee and some pastries and enjoys them amidst the verdant surroundings. Wilkie says it took eight years to get the garden like this, starting off, basically, from scratch. She put in vines to screen off the back alley, put up an old fence scrounged from somewhere, trucked in compost and potting soil. I get a vision. Artists paint, but I see where things should be in my garden.
Gardens are an ongoing expression of the gardener and nature itself.