Oral history interview with R. Michael Lee conducted by Ted Kerr for the Miami AIDS Memorials Project. Lee discusses creating the AIDS Memorial Garden in Houston, Texas in 1986 as a personal and community response to the AIDS epidemic. He describes the garden’s growth over time, the role of gardening as an outlet during periods of loss and uncertainty, and efforts to mark the site through a column, plaque, and a planned brick plaza memorializing names. Lee reflects on public reception, civic conflict over the site, collaborations that supported restoration and maintenance, and the continuing importance of memory work and documentation in AIDS memorialization.