Quotes from Mirabel Osler

To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.

I'm not a garden expert in any sense of the meaning, only someone who blunders about in the shrubbery.