I only have to walk up the drive to agree with Kim's sentiments that gardeners are artists. A tapestry of colour, shapes and heights appear as you let yourself become engrossed with my interpretation of a garden.

It's probably the aspect of gardening that I enjoy the most. What's more, the canvas changes with each season and more dramatically with each year that passes by.

Gardeners make plantings that are more interesting, more beautiful, more understandable, more mysterious, Therefore, they are artists. -- Kim

A gardener, by design, is someone who takes segments of nature and combines them into a seamless package of aesthetic delight that's completely individual. What I choose to do with a single plant may be entirely different to my neighbour's use of the same flora.

Gardens never actually become boring because they exude a rare insight into each gardener - in much the same way a painting reveals the painter. Our gardens (shall we call them 'canvases'?) evolve as we become inspired with landscape form, plant colours and textures, shapes and even movement.

I have to agree with you Kim - gardeners are artists!