Gardening Quotes

It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth.

My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.

Well tended garden is better than a neglected wood lot.

The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.

If a person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

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.

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.