In the 35 years I was in business, one thing I new for certain was that if you came across a person who was passionate about what they did and they demonstrated a high technical competence, then very good things would happen.The same is true in the world of horticulture.
There are plenty of people in this world who display these two human characteristics – sometimes you just never meet them. Serendipity!! My gardening buddy and neighbour in NC, Anna D , invited me to the local gardening club to listen to a chap who was going to talk about crevice gardens.
Enter Jeremy Schmidt – a man who fired up my latent passion for stone in a talk which lasted 45 minutes.
Serendipity! I was struggling with 3 nondescript, disease ridden, anonymous shrubs – in a very prominent situation that resulted in them screaming at me on a daily basis. A pick up truck with a tow hitch, a chain and that moment of irreversibility, put paid to them and created the space for Crevice Garden 1.
Jeremy and I had a chat at the meeting, a site visit followed, a meeting of minds and a handshake and a few weeks later Crevice Garden 1 was a reality. We worked well together and the experience was just fun!
Crevice garden 1 was just the start of Jeremy contributing to our horticultural adventure.
A word also for the characteristic of just being nice to people – if it hadn’t been for Anna going out of her way to alert me to the garden club agenda, this story would have been very different. Gardeners tend to do this but I will definitely try and pay this kindness forward.
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