The Point : How does one become a gardener ?
Gilles Clément : Since childhood, I am fascinated by insects. How a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly : is this not the most fascinating of mysteries ? In raising insects, I understood that we could not separate any of the plants. I am, therefore, very early interested in the ecosystem, even if the term did probably not yet. I entered the School of horticulture of Versailles, I learned the names and characteristics of plants, followed by courses in entomology, genetics. In the 1970s, I started to think…
