Quotes About Gardening

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

I'm a flower gardener.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

If I'm in the country, my big idea is to do nothing. It means talking, it means cooking with the leftovers in the fridge - l'art d'accommoder les restes - it means gardening.

I keep myself busy, I read a lot, watch a lot of TV, and do a lot of gardening. I do stupid stuff and I love it.

Gardening and my culinary skills keep me busy.

We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise.

I think we put far too much interest in trying to get ten to 20 year olds interested in gardening. I think you should do everything you can to try and get them interested up to the age of 10.

I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built in 1965, and I like gardening.

If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own energy, to consume.

Don't be afraid to get your hands in the dirt. Buy gloves if you are squeamish about it.

I don't wear gloves when I work in the garden.

I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be involved with entertainment. Singing or something, I guess.

I learned a lot while labouring and gardening. Whenever I feel tired and want to go home while doing TV work, I just think how tough groundworking is.

Growing up, we always had a big garden, and it just gave me the passion and appreciation for really good food.

The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive

I'm obsessed with not chucking away food. I'm lucky enough to have a gardener, so we grow sweetcorn, tomatoes, beetroots, cabbages, pumpkins, lettuce. I'm trying to get into blanching it and freezing so I don't have to buy veg over the winter, but then you need loads of freezers, and that's not ideal.

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.

I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food.

My favourite thorn belongs to the rose with a name like a mouthful of broken teeth, Rosa sericea pteracantha. It is grown almost entirely for its astonishing ruby-red shark's fin thorns that are at their lapidary best in early summer, especially when backlit by a low setting sun.

digging up some of the perennials that needed dividing, and bringing them back to a small sunny strip he had fitted out as a garden in his new place in the mountains.