Quotes About Gardening

I'm really good at growing roses.

I am always happy up a ladder with a paintbrush in my hand. And I wish I had more time to spend in the garden - not least because I get good ideas for writing when I'm out there.

Napa cabbage is very beautiful, all those long, pale leaves with ruffled edges.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

Like many women, I stay active juggling many aspects of a very full life! I'm a busy mom. I also love to travel, garden, cook and volunteer at my kids school.

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees.

At Monticello he planned to return to farming and gardening with passionate zeal.

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields–– harvests grace with joy.

There is little in life as rewarding as enjoying a salad composed entirely of things you've picked from your own garden

mechanisms for dealing with extremely sandy, excessively well-drained soils or rocky, cold soils in which moisture is limited for months at a time. Try alfalfa, aloe, artichokes, asparagus, blue hibiscus, chives, columbine, eucalyptus, garlic, germander, lamb's ear, lavender, ornamental grasses, prairie turnip, rosemary, sage, sedum, shrub roses, thyme, yarrow, yucca, and verbena.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

I could grow my own patch, make some apple pies and start selling them at the local country fair.

Working with the earth is peaceful for me.

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.

I grow all kinds of annuals. I have a nice perennial border in the front of the house.

Very early, I thought I would go into music, but I was aware that it would bring a set of obstacles I didn't find particularly attractive. Also, I'm not a great performer! For a while, I thought I would do something in landscape gardening. But it was always fashion for me.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

He who plants a garden plants happiness.

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

I'm not green-fingered, I'm grey-fingered. I suck the life out of plants.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Every Saturday and Sunday, when the other guys were out having a good time at the mall, I was at home working in the garden.

When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching,' he said. 'The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.