The old gardener was so deaf that he could not, or would not, understand.

The old gardener moved to Ichiro's side, but something was wrong.

He requested also to be taught gardening, and was answered, "I am not so good for that as an old gardener."

He has more important things to do than worry about the fate of an old gardener.

There was an old gardener raking leaves, and he didn't notice me when I went up the walk.

And the same old gardener - moi - tends them.

The old gardener looked at him curiously for a moment without speaking.

It really is a pleasure of older gardeners to give away plants.

Both the new and the old gardener will find much to think about here, and to savor.

Well, the old gardeners would have been horrified at the idea but with modern container-raised plants anything's possible.