Quotes About Gardening

The mind is like a fertile garden," Bruce said. "It will grow anything you wish to plant—beautiful flowers or weeds. And so it is with successful, healthy thoughts or with negative ones that will, like weeds, strangle and crowd the others. Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than Emperor's.

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized.

I am not,' he said, 'having that lummock-de-troll glunching about this place! Trod on all my tomatoes, he did, last year.

Few things are begun with as much hope as a garden, and it can disappoint in direct proportion to one's anticipation.

I believe in God,' Frank Lloyd Wright said, only I spell it Nature. Gardeners spend much of their time kneeling in postures of prayer.

If there was a big gardening convention, and you got up and gave a speech in favor of fast-motion gardening, I bet you would get booed right off the stage. They're just not ready.

I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

Aunt Isabelle fractured her ankle once while gardening

When Daddy's garden is ready it is filled with words that make me laugh when I say them- pole beans and tomatoes , okra and corn sweet peas and sugar snaps , lettuce and squash . Who could have imagined so much color that the ground disappears and we are left walking through an autumn's worth or crazy words that beneath the magic of my grandmother's hands become side dishes.

In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture—it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

Charlie had been doing something to the hedge; it was not exactly trimmed, but its disorder was now angular instead of bunchy.

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

The traditional way to use roses is in beds. These can be any shape and are an attractive, albeit conservative, choice for a formal garden. More exciting

Shrub roses readily create broad, informal hedges. Grandifloras make tall, narrow ones, while floribundas are best for low hedges. Space plants 24 inches

inches between each plant and 18 inches between each row. Prune heavily after planting to encourage

plantings. These are great for decks or entranceways. Miniatures can grow in pots as small as

wide. Containers should have drainage holes. Use a soil-less potting mix and feed and water frequently. In cold climates, container-grown plants

There are a few people who have the wonderful garden loam that is described in books and magazines. One is more likely to have a soil that is predominantly clay or sand. If you live in a subdivision

Fortunately, soil can be helped with additives and fertilizer. If you have not gardened previously or are on a new site, have your soil tested by a laboratory. Call your County Extension

grow best in a slightly acid soil with a pH of 6.0 to 6.5. The lab or extension office will be able to provide information on how to raise or lower the pH, if