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If you are not able, nor willing to hire a gardener, keep your profits to yourself,
Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if he ever had a chosen people.
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
Don't wear perfume in the garden--unless you want to be pollinated by bees.
Gardeners have three weapons to use against summer drought: mulches, watering pots, and prayers.
Gardening reality is born with a hoe in the hand.
What do gardeners do in winter? They accumulate fat.
There is not amoungst Man a more laborious Life than is that of a good Gard'ner's.
An iris likes to sit in the ground the way a duck sits on the water: half in, half out.
The gardener's autumn begins in March, with the first faded snowdrop.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Hollyhocks are very aspiring Flowers.
Roses do comfort the heart.
It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree.
Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet.
Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, nor a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia.
All the wars of the world, all the Ceasars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.
There is nothing like pruning a grapevine for training oneself to think like a plant.
I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam
Theophrastus...calleth the Rose the light of the earth, the faire bushie toppe of the spring,
A pale rose is a smell that has no fountain; that has upside down the same distinction;
What a pother have authors made with Roses! What a racket have they kept!
Grow what you love. The love will keep it growing.
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[CyberSalad]
[Garden Pursuits]
[Garden Quotes]
[Garden Journal]
[The Language of Flowers]
[Monthly Chores]
[Garden Poetry] [Zone Maps] [First/Last Frost Dates] [Trees] [Ground Covers] [Fruit/Berries] [Water Garden] [Gardening Links] [Vegetables] [Lawn] [Raised Beds] [Bulbs, etc.] [Shrubs] [Perennials] [Annuals] [Herbs] |