Today, the garden operates on a shoestring, with not even a full-time gardener to tend the 45-acre site.

A gardener, a thing like a large metal crab, was tending the bamboo.

Two gardeners, a man and a woman, were tending it.

Now 110 gardeners each tend about 40 square feet.

He got up, stared out the window, watching a black gardener tend the rose bushes outside his office.

Fifteen gardeners tend the grounds and greenhouses here, occasionally serving up something whimsical.

On a recent weekday, several gardeners tended their flowery plots near 91st Street.

Bill believes gardening is the most optimistic of occupations, which explains why gardeners tend to live to a great age.

And the same old gardener - moi - tends them.

In the past gardeners tended to concentrate on single plantings or single seasons.