I had a vision of being green and flowered because everything grows so well down there. But what I wanted to do first is get a horticulturist interested in coming to the zoo. And I found one in the park department and I offered him a job as the first horticulturist for San Antonio Zoo. And I brought him there and I told him what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. And he didn’t fail me. He did a wonderful job of choosing the plants. And as we did exhibits, I would take him with me and we walked the exhibit and I’d say, “Now, I don’t wanna see the animal from this point, so you have to put something there to stop the view.” But when I get around that bush or whatever you put in there, I wanna see it. I want it to pop right at them.
