Re: Roger Swain is back

From: ECPep@aol.com



Bob,



I have met Christopher Lloyd. If you want to meet Mr. Lloyd there is a

price. He talks to gardeners only for a fee.



I was on a bus from London to Sussex to see Lloyd's garden and Sissinghurst

plus one other I can't remember just now.



You can book garden tours out of London easily and be back the same day.



Lloyd was in his garden. I gather that he has worked in his garden all the

years it has been open dressed just as the gardeners so he would not be

noticed. The day I was there some German tourists tried to take a picture
of

him and that is a no-no. Whilst he stalked off in a very bad temper I took
a

picture of that from behind a shrub. I did not want to be banished also
but

could not resist the picture. So if you visit the garden, you are likely
to

find him crawling around in beds same as you or I. Just do not take any

pictures and remember that if a group wants conversation, it is paid for in

advance. Same thing for the late Rosemary Verey's garden.



Lloyd's garden was the best of the three.



Claire Peplowski

NYS z4



I wouldn't mind paying a reasonable fee to hear him speak. And I can't say
that I blame him for charging and trying to avoid the tourists.

He's such an important personality, and really one of the last few remaining
representatives of his generation of gardeners, that demand for him must be
tremendous.

If he stopped to talk to every gardener who wanted his attention, he'd never
get any paying work done. And I'm sure upkeep on his garden is rather
expensive.

He is a bit of an opinionated eccentric, though.



Bob Campbell







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