Quotes About Gardening

Like most garden lovers, he could never enjoy the perfection of the garden as much as he wished, because his overzealous eye saw always some imperfection, too minute to be noticed by a stranger.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

When you transplant a rose, transplant the reddest one.

Gardening...demands a certain attitude. It is necessary to accept the dynamism of vegetation with serenity.

Do not spread the compost on the weeds.

I'm just trying to help Do your uncle's bonsai eat meat? I don't think so Have you ever been bitten by one of his bonsai? No. In that case, your uncle's bonsai are not helping us

Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

Forget the planet, save the garden.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity.

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.

For every gardener there is a minimum level of engagement that is needed to sustain and develop the relationship. There is no magic figure to this and it will vary from person to person and season to season, but it is there.

If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.

My vegetable patch is my pride and joy.

I'd love to have a really flourishing vegetable garden, and I'd love to have a better area for a rose garden or a cutting garden, but I don't. You have to develop a garden in the way that it's meant to be developed.

The garden is my second profession. It's 22 hectares, which is a big garden. I really need it, going from the flower garden, the shrubs and the trees, the vegetable garden, all these things.

I've got a little vegetable patch in my garden. I moved from a city apartment into a house this year and needed something to do outside football.

Ground elder, introduced by the Romans as a vegetable, is difficult to get rid of because it regrows from the smallest trace of root.

I'd love to take up organic vegetable gardening, do anything that involves learning.

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.

There's nothing better than home-grown, chemical-free fruits and vegetables.