Gardening Quotes - Page 22

• One's own flowers and some of one's own vegetables make acceptable, free, self-congratulatory gifts when visiting friends, though giving zucchini - or leaving it on the doorstep, ringing the bell, and running - is a social faux pas.

  Barbara Holland

  Running, Flower, Zucchini

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• the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Beautiful, Garden, Childhood

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (2015). “Italian Days”, p.271, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am hoping for better times. That's how you know us hapless gardeners - by our dirty fingernails and our absurd, unquenchable optimism about next year.

  Mary McGrory

  Dirty, Years, Optimism

  Mary McGrory, Phil Gailey (2006). “The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary”, p.161, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I have spoken to plants myself, and if pressed for conclusions would have to say that those I threatened did better than those I - well, I wouldn't say prayed over, but pleaded with, cajoled. A rhododendron that hadn't bloomed for six years was flatly told it would be removed the following year if there were no flowers. Need I say that it has bloomed profusely ever since?

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Flower, Years, Would Be

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• Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.

  Eleanor Perenyi

  Temptation, Faces, Facts

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• Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality dissonant with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults - and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded. The magic word in a book's title almost ensures sales: Creative Stitchery, Creative Cookery, Creative Gardening. ... Perhaps we are trying to develop something that was innately ours.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Integrity, Book, Creativity

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• The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

  Mary McCarthy

  Facts, Sometimes, Love Making

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• Gardening transcends everything that otherwise divides us.

  Allen Lacy

  Divides

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• To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

  Mary Stewart

  Art, Garden, Plant

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• I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Book, Teaching

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.

  Patience Strong

  Heart, Adventure, Garden

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

  Candace Wheeler

  Perfect, Creative, Joy

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• Unfortunately, in the very act of weeding, you make it possible for new weeds to grow.

  Barbara Damrosch

  Weed, Grows

  Barbara Damrosch (2003). “The Garden Primer”, p.54, Rodale

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• A garden is to be enjoyed, and should satisfy the mind and not only the eye of the beholder. Sounds such as the rustle of bamboo and the dripping of water, scents and sensations such as grass or gravel or stone underfoot, appeal to the emotions and play a part in the total impression.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Eye, Garden, Play

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• The ideal garden is one in which a collection of trees, shrubs and plants have been procured and allotted to the best space available and are so arranged and tended that they are seen to their advantage, each in relation to the other. Every plant, of whatever shape or size, should be chosen not only for its individual merits but for its power to enhance the charms of neighbouring plants by contrast or combination in foliage or in flower colour.

  Penelope Hobhouse

  Flower, Garden, Space

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• A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.

  Amy N. Stewart

  Children, Garden, Firsts

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• Firmness in all aspects is a most important quality when gardening, not only in planting but in pruning, dividing and tying up. Plants are like babies, they know when an amateur is handling them.

  Margery Fish

  Baby, Important, Quality

  Margery Fish (2011). “We Made a Garden”, p.39, Pavilion Books

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• At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Home, Relax

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love planting bulbs. It is making promises with tomorrow, believing in next year and the future.

  Jean Hersey

  Believe, Years, Promise

  Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”

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• When you plant early, you bring spring early.

  Jean Hersey

  Spring, Plant

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Garden, Weather, Climate

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• it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Color, Green, Backgrounds

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• Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

  Mabel Osgood Wright

  Garden, Years, Generations

  Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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• There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

  Emily Oster

  Birth Defects, Risk, Increase

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• For more than thirty years, Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd have been gardening with extraordinary, indeed legendary, results. Part memoir, part omnium-gatherum of horticultural wisdom and practical advice, Our Life in Gardens is at once literate, learned, sensible, and, often, sheer luscious poetry. There are delights to be sampled on every page. From a cultivated life, they have brought forth, once again, a cultivated book.

  Philip Gambone

  Book, Garden, Years

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