"The very first garden was grown in the shade of half a dozen apple trees; space was limited and everything had a tendency to go to leaf instead of fruit...The next year I dug the sod away from the front of the house and did better. By the time we moved to the new house I was an experienced gardener...I had begun to experiment with the less usual vegetables...I was successful with tomatoes...I had established a nice collection of herbs. And I had proved my mastery of the sweet pea," (Roderick Haig-Brown. Measure of the Year. p. 114).

"Sometime during the war years Ann took over the vegetable garden and she has run it ever since, to the great good of the household, while I attend the frivolous flowers and trees."

"Ann's garden is a combination of planning and emotion, of science and poetry, of determination and delight. And it is success in abundance, at the right times, in the right quantities, for the right purposes," (Roderick Haig-Brown. Measure of the year. p. 115).

"I had not thought to make Ann grow so richly from her garden - to have done so seems to make the garden more that it is. Ann grows from everything she touches and returns growth to it," (Roderick Haig-Brown. Measure of the Year. p. 120).