Against This Terrible Invasion of Foreigners We Would Protest

[Rhododendrons in an English garden. From William Robinson, The English Flower Garden (7th edition, London, 1899)]

How nice for me to be able to include a quote by William Morris on gardening.


[There are] many plants which are curiosities only, which nature meant to be grotesque, not beautiful, and which are generally the growth of hot countries where things sprout over—quick and rank. Take note that the strangest of these come from the jungle and the tropical waste, from places where man is not at home, but is an intruder, an enemy.
— William Morris, 1882

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