“When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden.”
- Minnie Aumonier
From the book
The Gardener of Versailles: My Life in the World's Grandest Garden
by Alain Baraton
"I have never had the pleasure of studying Latin, but nothing is sweeter to my ears than the thousands of Latin names for plants.Scientific, they also contain countless love stories, simple and charming traces of a time when science still allowed itself to dream."- Alain Baraton
