Two Green Thumbs
Audrey had a real love for gardening. “To grow a garden is to believe in tomorrow,” she once said. Her son Luca said how he later found out why gardening was so important to his mother. As soon as the war broke out, gardening for pleasure was out of the question, and during the Winter of Hunger (when food supply was cut off), there was nothing to eat at all.
Audrey Hepburn – 1960s. Photo By Jon Lyons/Shutterstock
But then on May 5th, 1945, Holland was finally liberated at last. It was one day after his mother’s birthday. So after the most terrible winter of her life, liberation came with the spring, and with spring came the food. And so she developed a love for growing plants and vegetation.