我与她素不相识,也不知晓她的名字。但她精心照料多年的花园,让我觉得我已经很了解她了。她住的房子离我家仅有两英里之遥,是一栋简单的盒状轮廓两层小楼,陡斜的屋顶,朴实的线条,是19世纪中叶新泽西海岸典型的房屋。她的花园同她的房子一样简约。她不是根据书本教条死板做事的古板园丁,也不听信那些种植不同植物的一般建议,来让她的花园从春到秋,从藏红花到菊花,总有花朵盛开。她并未墨守低中高植被前中后布局之 I do not know her, nor do I know her name. But she carefully care for many years of the garden, so I think I already know her well. She lives in a house just two miles from my home and is a simple two-story, box-shaped building with steeply sloping roofs and earthy lines, typical of New Jersey’s mid-19th-century houses. Her garden is as simple as her house. She is not an old-fashioned gardener who works rigidly according to the dogma of books, nor does she obey the general advice of planting different plants that her garden will bloom from spring to autumn, from saffron to chrysanthemum. She did not stick to the layout of low, middle and high vegetation before and after