I HAVE GREAT RESPECT for what you learn in horticultural schools. I am very grateful for all that was taught to me in the Student Horticulturist Program at the New York Botanical Garden.
Still, with the knowledge you get at such an institution, you also tend to absorb, and later take for granted, the attitudes of your teachers. So I’ll admit to a prejudice about gardening: I am most interested in the practices of self-taught gardeners. Sometimes, lacking the