The book in which the passage above appears contains other passages that speak of times in the garden, trips taken with family, children learning from their parents and vice versa, and moments of laughter and joy.
The English Gardens and Gardeners trip by Smithsonian Study Tours explores past contributions of English gardeners as well as contemporary garden design and techniques.
While she was campaigning in Des Moines last year, she plucked a group of Iowa pre-schoolers from their botanical garden field trip so they could act as props at a right-to-life forum being held on the same grounds.
Residents also can take a bus to the nearest Long Island Rail Road stop in Kew Gardens; the trip to Penn Station in Manhattan takes 17 minutes.
Even if you don't want to visit the gardens, the trip is worth it for the views, and you can enjoy the most unique way to come down the hill - the toboggan.
The fantasy has its foundation in a wonderful spring day we once spent there, part of a trilogy of Cornish garden-themed trips which also included the Lost Gardens of Heligan and Trebah.
Items in the auction will include collections of rose plants or lilac shrubs; antique garden furniture; a trip to Paris; and a mature Japanese pagoda tree.
The fifth graders from the Westbrook Elementary School in Bethesda, Md., were inspired to plant their rain garden by a trip last October to Clagett Farm, a 280-acre organic farm run by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Upper Marlboro, Md., just south of Annapolis.
As I was walking down Bow Street through London's Covent Garden neighbourhood, Field Trip sent an alert that the street was created in 1637 and had once been home to many notable people including author Henry Fielding and actor Charles Macklin.
"He didn't do any gardening, but the trip was what he needed.
