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GARDENING QUOTES - 19



The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.   Jean Giraudoux


Most of us are too busy gardening to remember the pristine significance of the word "garden" which comes to us from the Persian, meaning Paradise.   author unknown


A garden without a fence is like a dog without a tail.   Moroccan Proverb


Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.   Richard Brinsley Sheridan


Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one.   Dave Barry


Because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.   Sir Francis Bacon


I am in love with this green Earth.   Charles Lamb


Love of flowers and vegetables is not enough to make a good gardener. He must also hate weeds.   Eugene P. Bertin


Annuals have their little period of beauty, and then they give themselves up to business, the business of seeding.   W. Clutton-Brock


A garden is the best alternative therapy.   Germaine Greer


Summer has now thrown open her emerald doors. Every part of the landscape is profuse in leaves and flowers, and "green-robed senators of mighty woods" are clothed in their most elegant array.   author unknown


A single rose can be my garden...a single friend, my world.   Leo Buscaglia




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