"From My Garden — A Riotous Assembly."

An essay that later appeared as part of chapter 4 in A Fountain of Flowers.

A celebration of a nearby "blazing kaleidoscope of colors," of Bates's own experiments in "planting 20 different things, instead of two," and a closing comment that "it isn't always by following the rules that, in gardening, you necessarily get the best results...Experts, of course, have their uses; but now and then it's nice to be a little dizzy for a change."

In Living (London, July 1971, 5:7, p. 13, attached).