"Luxuries of luxuries! I've been lying on my own thyme lawn, there was just enough room to turn over without landing onto the surrounding rock plants, and when I go forth to join the others they will (I hope) say, 'What a lovely smell', and if they don't I shall say, 'If you 'mell a 'mell it's me' But you haven't lived if you have not lain flat on your middle on a thyme lawn. The bees don't seem to mind a bit either, but just go on busily exploring the possibilities of each thyme flower." "Letters to Garden Lovers", Australian Home Beautiful, December 1939. "You see, it is said that I am always harping upon Westmoreland thyme. Well, it's worth harping on, and if I find myself with some ugly, bare earth when summer comes, I shall bow my head in shame; for with so good-tempered a plant to cover it up there'll be no excuse." "Letters to Garden Lovers", Australian Home Beautiful, October 1942. "I make no bones about it, for I definitely covert [sic] Thymus carnosus. Who wouldn't covert a little plant that is described as being 'rather like a miniature poplar, slow-growing, compact, with long pure white flowers'? It is the 'pure white flowers' that completed my downfall, for I do love white flowers and find it difficult to make further conversation with those who declare their dislike for anything with white flowers." "Letters to Garden Lovers", Australian Home Beautiful, October 1943.