The Garden 
that We Made 
it does look hopeless at times. Half the fascination about 
gardening is just the difficulty of making a success of one’s 
ideas. One has a number of obstacles to battle against ; 
but the joy is so much the greater when one finally does 
realise one’s desires. The very fact that a garden never is 
quite finished, that there is always more, and yet more, to 
be done, to be beautified, that one idea leads to another in 
endless succession — that is the entrancing thing about the 
garden. 
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever, - ’ Keats said, and 
that is indeed appropriate to gardening. 
The Path leading from the Rock Garden toward the open Sea. 
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