Quotes About Gardening

Gardening does so much for your brain. You're learning how a process works, and how important it is to do everything right so that you can eventually enjoy a tomato three months later. I've always been patient, but gardening really helps you with that.

But he [the gardener] works in a fourth dimension as well: time.

As far as Frances was concerned, gardening was simply open-air housework.

I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees - just generally doing gardening, putting plants in and hedges in. It takes quite a lot of time and I love it.

I am a gardener of infinite time.

I'm pretty good at gardening. It consumes my time, and it feels like I'm doing something constructive.

It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science.

As you get older, you have more time on your hands. Some people do croswords and others jigsaws, but I garden.

Meine Erdäpfel," he said. "My earth apples.

Green fingers are better than gold.

A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener's enemy.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

The love of gardening is a seed that once sown never dies, but grows to the enduring happiness that the love of gardening gives.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

Feels good, doesn't it?" Jenny's words were carefree and happy as she watched Maya do her sick bidding, liberally sprinkling fertilizer pellets in her wake.

Between all four children and my husband, I don't get to do much. But when I am in England, I cook and I garden, and it's much more calming and relaxed.

I garden. It's very relaxing to me.

There's something very relaxing about the aromatic scent of rosemary. I adore it.

I could build my days around charity committees and home decoration and gardening and volunteering, and I don't think there's anything wrong with building a life around those things. Most beautiful, good things are done by women people scorn.

fuchsia-blooming crape myrtle trees, which are tended