American-born Charles Elliot now lives in London and gardens on the Welsh border near Monmouth. He is a regular contributor to Horticulture magazine, and has been a magazine editor and a senior editor for Alfred A Knopf. He is the author of the essay collections The Gap in the Hedge and The Transplanted Gardener.
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"The tulips are too excitable." - Sylvia Plath; "Against the uniform sheet of snow and the grayish winter sky the Italian villa loomed up rather grimly; even in summer it kept its distance, and the boldest coleus bed had never ventured nearer than thirty feet from its awful front." - Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920); "My garden will never make me famous. I'm a horticultural ignoramus." - Ogden Nash (1902-1971); "Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats." - Woody Allen