Still, they will always become nostalgic for that garden which they left.
The owners of The Garden were nostalgic Austrians, who, in 1965, finally got so nostalgic that they sold the place to a Cuban refugee named Juan Saizarbitoria and went back to Austria.
They looked for inspiration to the new British "garden cities," nostalgic experiments in urban planning intended to be self-sufficient enclaves for working people — even if they did not embrace the egalitarian ideal.
"It's nostalgic for the lost Garden of Eden of the San Joaquin Valley," Waller says, adding that his band has a song called "California Country" with a similar theme.
There's also a growing trend for a more romantic, wild look in bought flowers, a casual (but carefully crafted) sense of the artisan, a desire for flowers that you might have picked from your own garden, if you had one, a nostalgic longing for the unmanufactured.
The piece evokes notions of ownership regarding nature and is a nostalgic work commemorating pre-history, as in "The Garden of Eden," according to the artist's statement.
This year's world famous flower show features a garden inspired by smartphone technology, another takes a nostalgic trip back to British caravan holidays of the 1950s, while a multi-storey pyramid sees seven gardens stacked high in the air.
"I wanted to combine a glamorous nostalgic 1930s Riviera atmosphere with a Tuscan influence, and fill the garden with cypress and olive groves," says Sibuet, who combed the local antiques markets for unusual vintage furnishings and objets d'art.
