So Tom found that to restore the condition of the garden he must first restore the vision of what the garden was all about. And build credibility and trust along the way. I told the board of directors the exact same thing as I told the garden staff. But I knew that words wouldn't do it alone. They never do with people.
People are very smart.
And they will see the conflict between what is said and what is done. So I had to be very consistent with what I said and what I did. And one of the first things I said was that we weren't going going to do any new planting for three years. We were going to spend that time cleaning up and assessing this garden before we moved forward. There were people here operating on two different levels.