"An important days work, trying to devise something better along the brook than the lone line of petunias which is not in keeping with the nature and character of the high bank. Had the rocks placed much more irregularly and then tried planting as a great innovation a shrub namely an Acer palmatum "Atropurpureum"and some spireas and depta from reserve. It is an experiment and may succeed." Elsie Reford, Garden Diary, May 25th 1939