How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.
Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.
The garden is the poor man's apothecary.
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.
On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.
Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.
Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise.
Gardens always mean something else, man absolutely uses one thing to say another.
Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden.
One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.
Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.
A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as Jobbing Gardener. You are warned of the danger that he may prove to be Garden Pest no 1.
I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error.
It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.
Just because you've only got houseplants doesn't mean you don't have the gardening spirit - I look upon myself as an indoor gardener.
Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
When you have done your best for a flower, and it fails, you have some reason to be aggrieved.
Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
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