Tom Schmidt Quotations

We were slammed when we went to do pick-ups. It took two days (as opposed to one in previous years), and people have been dropping off books ever since. The hallways of our offices are literally choked with (boxes of ) books.

We consider it a public garden, a piece of Uptown. People stop and look and thank us. During the Uptown Art Fair, someone liked our garden so much that he left us a present.

Truthfully, the master gardener who designed this doesn't like it anymore. He likes space, so you get the feeling of each plant individually. I like it growing together. So we've kind of fought him a little.

This soil gets pretty screwed up. Things planted on the edge don't do as well as things planted five feet in.

The beautiful thing about this garden is that it's year-round. It's just as beautiful in the winter.

It's very rewarding. I don't know what gets so addictive about it. I think you catch it from somebody - like a disease.