Quotes About Horticulture

ABNODATION  (ABNODA'TION)   n.s.[abnodatio, Lat.] The act of cutting away knots from trees;a term of gardening.Dict.

I'd be out in my garden all day, every day if I were allowed.

Working in a garden calms me down.

I'm not a gardener. I wish I was.

I've got really into gardening.

And I beseech you, forget not to informe yourselfe as dilligently as may be, in things that belong to Gardening.

I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.

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.

The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant.

I cannot live without flowers everywhere. I grew up having a big garden, the size of a city block, in Rombas.

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

I have a deep and pathological obsession with trees and plants.

The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.

Here's stuff you can cut out any time you see it: Dead wood: Remove dead canes down to the ground level. Damaged wood: Cut it back into about 1 inch of healthy wood. Misplaced stems: Take off stems that are rubbing together (choose one and spare the other), stems that are taking off in the wrong direction, and stems that are trailing on the ground.

Well, I wouldn't say I am a keen gardener... I'm a gardener. Well, by that I mean I've got a very nice garden and have got some very good gardeners.

Burbank might produce thousands of hybrid offspring from which he might pick just a few to propagate into a new generation.

In the early 1900s, a Florida farmer found a notable bud sport while inspecting his grove of Walters grapefruit trees. Tree after tree bore white fruit, except one. On that tree, the farmer spotted a branch weighed down with pink fruits. From that single bud sport, all pink grapefruits descend.

After a few years of breeding a type of lily, Burbank found a single specimen that met his standards. A rabbit ate it.

I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

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