Quotes About Gardening

Meanwhile, we stooped and picked the sharp plants

Of course the other side of this coin is that many men like to cultivate hobbies that give them a chance to get off alone—gardening, stamp collecting, building something in the basement, for example. And that's a cue to let him have his privacy. Just find out whether he wants to share an interest with you or go off like Walter Mitty and have extravagant daydreams in the carrot patch.

He had been too busy with the autumn pruning the last few days to stop as he often did to admire the close growing hydrangea bushes, their dark glossy leaves crowned with clusters of deep blue flowers. Now to his annoyance he saw that one of the tallest and most handsome plants, in the back row, a few feet out from the wall directly below the tower, had been badly crushed and broken, the beautiful blue heads limp on their stalks.

That was the experience of the baker Jeuriaen Jansz, whom we have already encountered. In late May or early June 1636 he bought the offset of an Admirael Lieffkens-a flower that happened to be standing in the garden of Marten Kretser in Amsterdam-from the shopkeeper Heinrick Bartelsz.

Bartholomeus van Rijn, thirty-six, had bought a Coornhart and a Blijenburger from Double in the "dry bulb time" between flowering and replanting of the bulbs in the early autumn.

Don't wear perfume in the garden — unless you want to be pollinated by bees.

Je fais du jardinage, je sarcle la pente et je me souviens d'octobre dernier où, dans la douleur, parce qu'il ne m'avait pas appelée, je travaillais là, de la même manière.

Parfois des ivrognes notoires se rachetaient par un beau jardin cultivé entre deux cuites.

It is not enough for a gardener to love flowers; he must also hate weeds

It does seem to me that the British in particular, British horticultural literature and television programmes, focus a huge amount on how we garden and hardly at all on why we garden.

I am a particular fan of integrative exercise - that is, exercise that occurs in the course of doing some productive activity such as gardening, bicycling to work, doing home improvement projects and so on.

I adore gardening and plan to take it up properly when I have a bit more time on my hands. Until then, I love pottering in garden centres. I'm totally low maintenance. I don't ask for fancy plants, just basic, long-lasting shrubs that look nice. But I am particular about flowers.

As an athlete, if you train your body but don't fuel it the right way, that doesn't make much sense. Adopting a plant-based diet with the right amount of proteins that came from the right places was the way to go. I also just love gardening.

in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud.

your camellias are holding up

planting dates accurately, begin collecting your own garden notes. Each season, review your notes to detect patterns, then adjust

My wife's a gardener. I'd put Astroturf down everywhere, but I get outvoted one to one every year.

Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.

If I'm honest, the thing I am proudest of is my varieties of wild flowers in the hay meadow.

I'm not a gardener. I don't have the consistency for gardening, and I have barely enough for an orchard. I don't embarrass myself. You have to be there tending and weeding. With orchards, you can go through negligent periods and recover.

By having a direct stake and involvement with the process of plants growing, of having your hands in the soil and tending it carefully and with love, your world and everyone's else's world too, becomes a better place.

In my little way I am trying to contribute to the Mother Nature by doing some terrace plantation.

This sort of day makes indoor work seem shameful. So working outside, whether in the garden or the woods or on the front porch..., is a sacrament.

James, would you kindly inform your sister that the glass in this picture frame gives me a very good reflection of everything that's going on outside my window. I want to see Lauren and Bethany in this office and you can tell them that they'll be joining you on gardening duty for the rest of the week.