If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.

He was educated at Charterhouse School in Surrey (1918 - 1924) and afterwards studied in London at the Slade School of Fine Art in London University (1924 - 1926) under Professor Henry Tonks. In 1954 Page married Mme Vera Milanova Daumal widow of poet Rene Daumal and formerly wife of the poet Hendrick Kramer; Russell Page died in 1962. Page went on to design gardens in Europe and the USA.

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