Cecily: Kipling once wrote, “Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful’, and sitting in the shade”.

Ishmael: I like that. How can I use it?

Cecily: Well, for me it means something about embracing motivated change in all forms. Making active decisions. Never getting complacent. We grow our gardens — alone or with others — and some seasons are made for poppies and others for Japanese maples and others for stones or sand to be tilled gently.

Ishmael: That’s beautiful.

Cecily: It’s beautiful or it’s trite. But sometimes there is beauty in the trite.