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| My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view. ~ H. Fred Dale |
| Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration. ~ Lou Erickson |
| What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. ~ Charles Dudley Warner, |
| There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. ~ Mirabel Osler |
| Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. ~ Author Unknown |
| The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. ~ George Bernard Shaw, |
| Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to. But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough. Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them. ~ Victoria Glendinning |
| In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death. ~ Sam Llewelyn |
| The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. ~ Hanna Rion |
| In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~ Abram L. Urban |
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| It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. ~ James Douglas, |
| Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. ~ Marcelene Cox |
| God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done. ~ Author Unknown |
| I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, |
| Don’t wear perfume in the garden – unless you want to be pollinated by bees. ~ Anne Raver |
| When one of my plants dies, I die a little inside, too. ~ Linda Solegato |
| Plant carrots in January and you’ll never have to eat carrots. ~ Author Unknown |
Take thy plastic spade,
It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,
They are thy colours.
~ William Mason, |
| It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~ Sydney Eddison, |
| Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. ~ Lindley Karstens |
I know that if odour were visible, as colour is,
I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
~ Robert Bridges |
| Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden. ~ Orson Scott Card |
| How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. ~ Benjamin Disraeli |
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.
~ Rudyard Kipling |
| You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~ Author Unknown |
| I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is the reverent servant of Nature, not her truculent, wife-beating master. I think the true gardener, the older he grows, should more and more develop a humble, grateful and uncertain spirit. ~ Reginald Farrer, |
| Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy. ~ Astrid Alauda |
| The garden is the poor man’s apothecary. ~ German Proverb |
| Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark, swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora. ~ Ketzel Levine’s talkingplants.com |