This backyard gardener is a true connoisseur of plants

I don’t think there is anyone who appreciates plants more than Loren Zeldin. In clandestine corners of his garden you suddenly come upon the most brilliant, yet ephemeral, flowering plants — miniature polyanthus primroses, florists’ cineraria, and lisianthus or prairie gentian, for example. Although Zeldin knows they will live for no more than a few months in Reseda, where his half-acre backyard garden is located, he insists on planting them anyway.
Or take fuchsias, known comm