A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. Gertrude Jekyll
The garden is so ferociously sexy at night, it's almost lurid. Anne Raver
Grass is the cheapest plant to install and the most expensive to maintain. Pat Howell
Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out ot the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, "What is that?" Richardson Wright
The golden rule of gardening is to pay attention to local conditions of weather and soil. Carol Williams
If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener. J. C. Raulston
It is only when you start to garden—probably after fifty—that you realize something important happens every day. Geoffrey B. Charlesworth
You are the kind of FRIEND who would overlook my broken fence to admire my flowers. author unknown
Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained. Jerzy Kozinski
Flowers are love's truest language. Park Benjamin
One of the greatest virtues of gardening is this perpetual renewal of youth and spring, of promise of flower and fruit that can always be read in the open book of the garden, by those with an eye to see, and a mind to understand. E.A. Bowles
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. Margaret Atwood
