"Two very unpleasant muggy days but with a grey light as of threatening rain which makes all the colours stand out more vividly. Temp about 70. Gardens give each day and more of a thrill and a certain feeling of amazement that they are what they are and as though they are all the work of something or someone quite apart from anything I have planned or done for I cannot just understand how I have made them what they are." Elsie Reford, Garden Diary, June 29th 1948