Quotes About Gardening

In a garden, food arises from partnership. If I don't pick rocks and pull weeds, I'm not fulfilling my end of the bargain. I can do these thing with my handy opposable thumb and capacity to use tools, to shovel manure. But I can no more create a tomato or embroider a trellis in beans than I can turn lead into gold. That is the plants' responsibility and their gift: animating the inanimate. Now there is a gift.

blue vervain and chamomile

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

The air smelled of box and mint and thyme and newly turned earth. Laura

The greengages had a pale blue bloom, especially in the shade, but in the sun the flesh showed amber through the clear green skin; if it were cracked the juice was doubly warm and sweet.

If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work with gloves on.

Solid ground beneath his feet, dirt under his fingernails, the husbandry of growing things, bulbs and roots, seeds and shoots, this had been his world.

I don't say my golf game is bad but if I grew tomatoes they'd come up sliced.

Whilst Cornelius was weeding, manuring, watering his beds, whilst, kneeling on the turf border, he analysed every vein of the flowering tulips

In no time the perennial borders were thick with rosy-pink foxglove and cream-colored lilies, each of which hung like a pendant, collecting dew on its satiny petals.

Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.

Like his father before him he had come to love being on land and spent most days in the garden, where he grew vegetables and kept bees that were known for honey that was so sweet strong men cried when they tasted it.

Poetry is mother-tongue of the human race; as gardening is older than agriculture; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables,—than deductions; barter,—than trade.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race; just as gardening is older than the cultivated field; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables than syllogisms; barter than trade

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.

They sowed the duller vegetables first, and a pleasant feeling of righteous fatigue stole over them as they addressed themselves to the peas.

Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind, lettuce be thankful, squash selfishness, turnip to help thy neighbor, and always make thyme for loved ones.

Oh ladybug, I wish you joy As you complete your garden chores. I'd like to put aside my work And join you in the out-of-doors!

If you are a gardener, you can always put "Plant Manager" on your résumé.

My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.

When overwhelmed and stressed and unable to think, I go out and garden, it's cheaper than a shrink.

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.