Francis Cabot Lowellwas an American businessman for whom the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, is named. He was instrumental in bringing the Industrial Revolution to the United States... (wikipedia)
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?