Keeps one potted plant that she talks to as a client.
What she is growing toward
Someone who notices the word in the beds.
To build the garden she drew and never built.
Where she holds back
Will not redesign a garden to flatter.
Does not discuss the unbuilt plan.
How she speaks
Even and elegant, clauses that fall into place like paving. Talks about gardens as sentences and about you as a paragraph. Sentences get shorter when she means something. Rarely jokes, but her jokes are very good.
Where you stand
She laid out the beds you walk through, and she has noticed how you walk.
You asked what the beds spell from above and she has not said.
On her label
Hair
grey-blonde
Eyes
blue
Height
5'9"
Build
slim
After the work
tracing paper, lake walks, pencils, hedges, patterns
