My father, David Hicks, with his sharp eye for structure and contrast, would gesture towards the clipped avenues of hornbeam and point out the bold geometric patterns “The test of a good garden,” he would say, “is seeing it in winter” which is exactly when Rosemary Verey, the doyenne of English garden’s, interviewed him on camera.
The snow lay crisp that day, and my father was pleased that the venerable Ms. Verey drew the viewers' attention to the fact that the effect of the "wonderful shadows cast by the strong winter sun" was "quite architectural." "Structure is everything," my father replied, as he stalked about dressed in his favorite cloak…
