Acknowledgments

As a patron of the arts and academe, I am fortunate to have been led to the painted images and realities of Elizabeth I, to the inviting pathways that draw me ever deeper into her mystique, and to the commissioning of my Elizabethan Garden. The garden has been endangered by a group of remarkable artists and is recorded in these chapters.

Designers have assisted me with this work and have contributed to making this endeavor an enormously enjoyable project:

First, the ancestors of the garden artist---my mother Alma, who created and thoughtfully nurtured and rearranged the rambling roses in my garden of life;

And John, my father, gentle and genteel, who admired intelligent women and lovingly constructed the cottage-garden paths for his 3 D's. [ Donna, Darlene, and Dawn] for their lives' journeys;

Dear Aunty Cel, who shared with me those glorious moments in time, those yellow jasmine and golden daffodil, for sunny indoor arrangements;

My heavenly son J.J., whose lacy flowers now blow freely in the wind across the garden path;

Second, my talented designers at Concordia University, Wisconsin, who fill my life with a profusion of herbaceous borders and a finely developed sense of harmony and spirituality, especially JB, BC, and SC;

Third, PJ, a mighty master of the garden, who held strong professional views about growing gardens and their designs;

Finally, I wish to thank my daughters, Gigi and Gina, for encouraging a late-flowering rhododendron in my research and writing.