You simply print out a grid and brief questionnaire, draw a rough plan of your garden and say what you hope to achieve, and fax or send it back.
Measure your herb garden plot, and draw a sketch of it.
If they are on the board, or in some other relatively impregnable position, a British human-resources director will suggest that they "take gardening leave"—continue to draw a salary but stay away from the office.
Near Silo City, developers are building an entertainment center around another elevator complex, with sports rinks, a restaurant and brewery, and a beer garden, drawing a sponsor whose logo is rolled onto the sides of the silos like wallpaper.
Later pink balloons fall from the ceiling of the theater (attached to them are more Bushisms), eventually settling on the floor like a child's drawing of a garden: pretty on the outside but upon closer inspection devastating.
In 1992 Robison came across a description, in a London Sotheby's catalog, of a red-chalk drawing of a garden scene.
The biographer draws a pleasing parallel between gardening and novel-writing: The mixture of disciplined structure and imaginative freedom, the reworking of traditions into a new idea, the ruthless [that word again!] elimination of dull, incongruous or surplus materials, and the creation of a dramatic narrative, all come to mind — not to mention patience, stamina, and attentiveness.
Aged 12, Gainsborough was drawing a pear tree in the garden when he spotted a fellow leaning over the wall and gazing hungrily at the fruit.
But being an uncompromising modern artist living in a small provincial town is a risky business, and the locals were outraged when Schiele was seen drawing a naked Wally in the garden of the house he was renting.
Use the graph paper squares to draw the garden to scale.
